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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 1995 12:51:35 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: syslogd error: bind: can't assign address 
Message-ID:  <199503261051.MAA24852@grunt.grondar.za>

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> I think there might be a glitch in the logic in the -current rc
> script.  It appears to initiate syslogd before the system's hostname
> has been set up.  When I boot up, I get an error like this just after
> probing:
> 
> 		syslogd: bind: cannot assign specified address
> 
> ...and no syslogd process is to be found.  If I log in and manually
> enter "syslogd", it dumps a screen of startup progress, and a syslogd
> process is then in memory.

I get this too, and I reported it in PR conf/273. The solution is to load
syslogd _after_ the 'netstart' section in /etc/rc.

M

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