From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 29 14:44:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA18533 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 14:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA18518 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 14:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA20350; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:44:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA00721; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:38:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970629233856.KC40867@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 23:38:56 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: phschack@inba.fr (Philippe SCHACK) Subject: Re: problem with the syslog References: <3.0.1.16.19970629194630.47d77b8c@mail.inba.fr> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970629194630.47d77b8c@mail.inba.fr>; from Philippe SCHACK on Jun 29, 1997 19:46:30 +0200 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe SCHACK wrote: > After I compiled and installed qpopper 2.2 or 2.3 on a FreeBSD > 2.1.7.1-RELEASE (the -s parameter is set), nothing will appear in the > syslog file. When I use a qpopper 2.2 wich I think I had compiled on a > FreeBSD 2.1.5 all works fine. The local domain socket has been moved from /dev/log to /var/run/log. We are providing /dev/log (as a symlink) for backwards compatibility, but any program statically compiled to use the new pathname will fail on an old system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)