From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 19: 0:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C520E14F5B for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23776; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:01:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908030201.WAA23776@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: ipfw not logging In-Reply-To: from daniel B at "Aug 2, 99 05:43:23 pm" To: danielb@pacex.net (daniel B) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:01:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG daniel B wrote, > Hi list > I have ipfw configured and running and I added: > > !ipfw > *.* /var/log/ipfw.log > > to /etc/syslog.conf > > but when the machine reboots the following error message appears: > > additional message syslogd syslogd: /var/log/ipfw.log > : no such file or directory > > The file is there! but it seems /var/log/ipfw.log is not discovered during > the system initialization routines. > I am running 3.1.-RELEASE > Any clues would be appreciated Could you, % ls -l /var/log/ipfw.log % ls -ld /var/log % more /etc/syslog.conf In the olden days, I'd ask if you used spaces rather than tabs in your syslog.conf, but FreeBSD's syslogd should be able to handle that. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message