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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: lost /dev/log
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828193302.361A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BB949E.E1134260@jalapeno.habaneros.com>

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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Neil C. Jensen wrote:

> No, as a matter of fact, syslogd is not running. I have tried to start
> it manually, but it will not run. All my /var/log files are empty. 

What do you mean by 'not run'?  What error do you get?

Sounds like the binary is corrupted.

It is really odd that /var/log/messages is empty -- the boot messages
should go there (maybe they can't because syslogd isn't running).

> > For some some reason, I did not end up with a /dev/log during my install
> > of 2.1.5R. I do have /dev/klog, though.
> 
> /dev/log is a UNIX domain socket for syslogd(8).  Is syslogd running? 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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