From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 17:14: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0C715129 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 17:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11v8Qk-0002Nz-00; Tue, 07 Dec 1999 00:24:34 +0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:24:34 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Chuck Burdick (TT)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/run/log missing Message-ID: <19991207002434.B4038@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Burdick (TT) wrote: > For some reason, my system is missing /var/run/log. This is the Berkley > socket device that /dev/log points to and what syslogd uses. Thus syslogd > won't run (just exits w/ code 1). You shouldn't need to create it. In fact, you can't in a way syslogd would like: the only way to create a socket is with bind (correct me if I'm wrong here), and if the socket exists syslogd's bind call would fail with EADDRINUSE. syslogd should create it when it calls bind(2). If it's not doing so, what error message is it giving? -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message