Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:37:27 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: comments on this change please. Message-ID: <326D1467.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <199610220946.LAA16436@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As Julian Elischer wrote: > > > I have added some code to syslogd to help compatibilty > > by having it TRY make a symlink for /dev/log to /var/run/syslog.socket > > /var/run/log. POLA. there's already a /var/run/syslog.pid this matches that.. but I'm happy with just 'log' if that's what people want.. (There's precedent with /var/run/printer, and > we should convince the XFree86 folks of /var/run/X11, too.) that would just be a porting issue.. > > > for those people who want BSDI (or linux?) or older freeBSD > > binaries to work. In teh case of a read-only root fs, One would hope > > that whoever set it up would have made the symlink first. > > Do also modify the remaining Makefiles etc. to make sure the symlink > will be in place on any new system. yeah I guess so, though once syslogd has been run r/w it's there.. :) > > Do symlink handling in devfs first. devfs already DOES handle symlinks and has fro several months > > > + #if defined _OLD_PATH_LOG > > + int alt_fifo; > > + const char *OldLogName = _OLD_PATH_LOG; > > + #endif > > I'm against bloating it with the `OLD_' cruft. Either change > completely, or keep it as it is. I want to make sure there are as few surprises as possible..
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