From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 00:49:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE18C106566B for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.103.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762368FC19 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9S0gOMn032226 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:42:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <201010280042.o9S0gOMn032226@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <32224.1288226544.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:42:24 -0500 From: Martin McCormick Subject: FreeBSD8.1 Can't get Syslog file to Log dhcpd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:49:40 -0000 I have dhcpd running on a new 8.1 installation and I can't seem to get /var/log/syslog to work. I touched /var/log/syslog set to 644 and have restarted syslogd numerous times since then and it is still 0-length. I did add the following line to syslog.conf which has worked for probably 6 or 8 years: *.info;auth.info;mail.warning;cron.warning /var/log/syslog Logs such as /var/log/messages are working fine. Thanks for any suggestions. Our dhcp server is very busy so we really need these logs. I can see dhcpd trying to log if I run syslogd -d. Thanks for any suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group