Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:18:40 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: George Vagner <vagner@ti.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange message Message-ID: <199801200718.HAA29219@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:32 CST." <199801200101.TAA05203@epcot.spdc.ti.com>
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[.....] > >Perhaps /var/log/ppp.log doesn't already exist. You need to create a > >zero length file if it doesn't. This should be done by newsyslog(8). > > Aha! the zero lenth file is there but i did notice messages in my mailbox > that say: > > newsyslog: preposterous process number: 0 > > the subject line is : > > cron <root@bud> /usr/sbin/newsyslog Maybe a # killall syslogd # syslogd is in order. Sounds like syslogd's pid file is dodgy. > >Also, make sure that *only* tabs are used in syslog.conf. Syslogd is > >quite particular about this. > > yes tabs are only used. > > > > >> vagner@ti.com > > > >-- > >Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > > > > > > > Laszlo Vagner > Texas Instruments > Email:vagner@NOSPAM.ti.com > Pg. 598-5217 > Wk. 995-4297 >
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