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Subject: Re: How to not start syslogd
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On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bill Moran wrote:

> Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:

>> 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, [...]

Yep.  It was a typo.  I should let this be a reminder to always copy  
and paste such things into email instead of retyping.  What I had in  
my rc.conf was really

   syslog_enable="NO"

Notice the missing "d'.

Thanks.

-j