From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 3 23: 6:29 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 23:06:27 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED73F37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:06:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14E4S9-000NrH-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:04:50 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14E4TV-000DWk-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:06:13 +0300 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:06:13 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Syslog and Stable Message-ID: <20010104100613.B51777@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Lawrence Farr" on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:10:19PM -0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: Odhiambo Washington Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Lawrence Farr [20010103 19:10]: writing on the subject 'Problem with Syslog and Stable' =>I am getting a lot of: => =>Jan 3 16:04:55 frogger syslogd: '/' in "/dev//dev/tty" => =>in /var/log/messages, and my daily run output has: => =>Local system status: =>uptime: /dev//dev/tty: No such file or directory => 2:36AM up 12 days, 9:55, 5 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 => =>In it. => =>Issuing the w command gives me: => =>w: /dev//dev/tty: No such file or directory => 4:07PM up 12 days, 23:26, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 =>etc. => =>Im getting this on multiple machines that I have, and all have been built =>from there own sources to stable on different days/weeks, and a =>mergemaster -a run. => =>Anyone got any ideas where to start looking? Sounds quite a rare situation, unless there is a file that you've moved around while adapting it to each machine - and that file could be having a small issue within. I'm thinking of a situation where you do not want to manually edit your syslog.conf for every individual machine and so just copy one syslog.conf from machine A into machines B and C, which then end up inheriting the small typo in syslog.conf. You could start from there but that's a guess. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. -Woody Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message