From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 7 8:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6535337B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f47Fo9E35951; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105071550.f47Fo9E35951@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: David Malone Subject: Re: bin/27088: syslogd(8) doesn't create log files if they are inexistant Reply-To: David Malone Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/27088; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Malone To: reel@sympatico.ca Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/27088: syslogd(8) doesn't create log files if they are inexistant Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 16:47:05 +0100 On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:56:50PM -0700, reel@sympatico.ca wrote: > >Description: > When /var is empty (due to loss of data), syslogd(8) doesn't create > them at boot time but, it tells you that they are inexistant. This is the correct (or atleast traditional) behaviour of syslogd, because it doesn't know what permissions to create them with. I'll close the PR if you've no further objections. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message