From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 19:34:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03762 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03752 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00370; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Neil C. Jensen" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: lost /dev/log In-Reply-To: <01BB949E.E1134260@jalapeno.habaneros.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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