From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 19 18:43:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from backup.dagupan.com (www.psysc.org.ph [206.101.69.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5166C37B404 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by apmail.dagupan.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:44:10 +0800 Message-ID: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340F7F@apmail.dagupan.com> From: francisv@dagupan.com To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: strange behavior of syslogd: bug or operator failure? Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:44:10 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One more question: did you use mergemaster or something similar to update your /etc/syslog.conf file? -----Original Message----- From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@FreeBSD.ORG] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:35 AM To: JJ Behrens Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange behavior of syslogd: bug or operator failure? On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:53:56PM -0800, JJ Behrens wrote: > > > After upgrading to 4.5-stable syslogd stops logging messages from > > > our ciscos. After investigating into problem it seems that syslogd > > > have no ideas about file it need to save messages: some of them logged > > > onto console (in fact into /var/log/console), others - into > > > /var/log/messages. One difference - messages originated from different > > > hosts. > > > Is something wrong with syslogd? It works before upgrade. > > > > Do /var/log/{a,b,c,xxx} exist? > > Hmm, it seems like they removed syslog from /etc/services, or at least that's > an error message that I get when I boot. I don't see anything about this on > the PR list. I suspect these two things are related. Who is "they?" It most definately is in a stock FreeBSD services(5) file. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message