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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:33:46 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Keith Spencer <bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syslogd not working!
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On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 07:04:35AM +1000, Keith Spencer wrote:
> Hi Greg and all,
>
>>> at boot the report is...syslogd can't bind to something
>>> and says it isn't able to take requests or something.
>>>
>>> Any clues ?
>>
>> No, you left them out of the message.  What are the somethings?
> Fair enough....Here are the errors ?
> During boot sequence:
> syslog: bind: Can't assign requested address
> syslog:child pid 59 exited with return code 1
> ....what does that mean : ^ o  ?

It means it stopped because of an error.

>> Is syslogd running?  If it isn't, what happens if you try to start it?
>> Greg
> .... How do I do that Greg?

# syslogd

But it will die again.

> BTW I notice in rc.conf that there are no syslog flage set...does
> this matter?

You should have:

syslogd_enable="YES"		# Run syslog daemon (or NO).
syslogd_flags=""		# Flags to syslogd (if enabled).

Your problem looks like the lack of the file /var/run/log.  You should
have:

# ls -l /var/run/log
srw-rw-rw-  1 root  bin  0 Sep 19 16:31 /var/run/log

If you don't have it, do

# mkfifo /var/run/log

I'd like to know how you came not to have it, though.  Did you move
/var?

Greg