Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:50:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd failure Message-ID: <Mutt.19970107095008.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>; from dkelly@HiWAAY.net on Jan 5, 1997 17:02:28 -0600 References: <Mutt.19970104113428.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701052302.RAA16060@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>
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As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote:
> > No, that's already okay. It's normally done at /etc/rc time.
>
> fsck or "rm /var/run/log" at /etc/rc time? (Sorry, I can't get to my
> -current system right now from here.)
The removal of /var/run/log:
rm -f /var/run/log
echo ' syslogd.'; syslogd
Previously it happened here:
(cd /var/run && { cp /dev/null utmp; chmod 644 utmp; })
^ rm -f log;
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