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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
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References: <DtzLHy.5wn@rci.ripco.com>
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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.