From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 19 23:29:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11609 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11597 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA29219; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:18:41 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801200718.HAA29219@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: George Vagner cc: Brian Somers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange message In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:01:32 CST." <199801200101.TAA05203@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:18:40 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [.....] > >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 /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 , , > > > >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > > > > > > > Laszlo Vagner > Texas Instruments > Email:vagner@NOSPAM.ti.com > Pg. 598-5217 > Wk. 995-4297 >