From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 04:44:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B2816A41A for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4EB13C43E for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working (c-71-60-127-199.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.60.127.199]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530CCEBC3B; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:44:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:44:32 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Jeffrey Goldberg Message-Id: <20071230234432.3389a010.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <542F8326-4A77-42AA-9FFF-CB8C6AD8756A@goldmark.org> References: <542F8326-4A77-42AA-9FFF-CB8C6AD8756A@goldmark.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: User questions Subject: Re: How to not start syslogd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:44:36 -0000 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > I've installed and configured syslog-ng from ports and no longer wish > to have the standard syslogd run. > > Putting > > syslogd_enable="NO" > > into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting. The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite a few). I suspect you've either got a typo in your rc.conf, or a corrupt/nonstandard /etc/rc.d/syslogd file, or some other oddity preventing it from working. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com