From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 12:47:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA05681 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:47:41 -0700 Received: from copper.cmp.com (copper.cmp.com [198.80.26.247]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA05675 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:47:39 -0700 Received: from mailgate.cmp.com ([198.80.26.5]) by copper.cmp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/16.2) id AA049327665; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 15:47:45 -0400 Received: by mailgate.cmp.com with Microsoft Mail id <2F846F59@mailgate.cmp.com>; Thu, 06 Apr 95 15:46:49 PDT From: Plyaskin Sergey To: questions Subject: Re: 'syslogd : bind : can't assign requested address' Error Message Date: Thu, 06 Apr 95 15:46:00 PDT Message-Id: <2F846F59@mailgate.cmp.com> Encoding: 41 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- From: owner-freebsd-questions To: Stephen Tsai Cc: questions Subject: Re: 'syslogd : bind : can't assign requested address' Error Message Date: Thursday, April 06, 1995 12:32PM On Wed, 5 Apr 1995 18:35:52 -0400 Stephen Tsai wrote: >I try to connect a FreeBSD 2.0 workstation to a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 server >When the 2.0 workstation boots up, it show the error >'syslogd : bind : can't assign requested address' message. >After this, there are several 'protocol not supported' error messages >on each execution of 'route' and 'ifconfig' command. >I am wondering if anyone can tell me what is the problem. > Check in the /etc/rc file to ensure that the following lines appear after the /etc/netstart line echo -n 'starting system logger' rm -f /dev/log syslogd Haven't looked into this much, but seems like these lines have ventured from their place in 2.0R's version of /etc/rc. syslogd seems to want the network in place first. Worked for me. tim ______________________________________________________ This seems to work, Thanks. However, now I receive the messages: "syslogd: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory " and "last message repeated 9 times" What the hell is going on? /var/run/utmp file do exists. Any ideas?