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 Message-ID: <19970629233856.KC40867@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970629194630.47d77b8c@mail.inba.fr>; from Philippe SCHACK on Jun 29, 1997 19:46:30 %2B0200 References: <3.0.1.16.19970629194630.47d77b8c@mail.inba.fr>
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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. ;-)
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