From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 3 02:21:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA24734 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 02:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix.infoserve.net (unix.infoserve.net [199.175.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA24717 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 02:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnderk@infoserve.net) Received: from infoserve.net (d80-22.infoserve.net [209.82.22.80]) by unix.infoserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27763 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 02:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35C581E0.8B23C31C@infoserve.net> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 02:24:48 -0700 From: John Derk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: root mail message: newsyslog... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I have been repeatedly getting the following mail from the bsd 2.2.6 system to myself (as root): The re line refers to /usr/bin/newsyslog, while the body says "newsyslog: can't open /var/run/syslog.pid file to restart a daemon: No such file or directory newsyslog: log not compressed because daemon not notified." Can anyone tell me what it means? Or do I need to provide more info? Thanks, John Derk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message