From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 3 22:05:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA03323 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA03286 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA03001 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:53:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA28364; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:51:51 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA25535; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:51:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id BAA17609; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:44:14 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:44:14 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme) Subject: Re: syslogd failure References: <32CD9C38.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32CD9C38.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>; from Randy DuCharme on Jan 3, 1997 17:54:32 -0600 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Randy DuCharme wrote: > Syslog -d says "cannot create /var/run/log: Address already in use rm /var/run/log before trying to restart it. (After some experimenting, and thinking more about all this, it seems Jordan was indeed right.) Anyway, it would be even more interesting to learn why it dies in the first place... Maybe you could start it with -d on an otherwise unused VTY (so you might perhaps see the reason for its sudden death)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)