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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!twwells!twwells!not-for-mail From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Syslogd - buggy? Date: 3 Jul 1996 23:32:04 -0400 Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4rfdvk$jd6@twwells.com> References: <DtzLHy.5wn@rci.ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: twwells.com In article <DtzLHy.5wn@rci.ripco.com>, David Richards <dr@ripco.com> wrote: : If I manually create the files, it will use them, but it won't create : them if they don't exist. This breaks a lot of standard log rotating : scripts. Syslogd has always refused to create files that don't exist. Your "standard" scripts are simply broken.