From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 21:29:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA13055 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salsa.habaneros.com (salsa.habaneros.com [207.34.140.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA13050 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jalapeno.habaneros.com (jalapeno [207.34.140.98]) by salsa.habaneros.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA17468; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jalapeno.habaneros.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BB94C3.40C97A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com>; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:28:20 -0700 Message-ID: <01BB94C3.40C97A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> From: "Neil C. Jensen" To: "'dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu'" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: lost /dev/log Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:28:19 -0700 Encoding: 41 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Problem solved. I had syslog commented out in /etc/services. Once I uncommented it and restarted inetd.conf, /dev/log appeared and logging started. The boot messages then appeared in the /var/log/messages file. One question, though; I had disabled syslog in services while following a security checklist from AUCERT. Why is syslog a security risk? Why won't syslog work without the TCP socket and just the /dev/log? Neil ---------- From: Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 12:34 PM To: Neil C. Jensen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: lost /dev/log 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