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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!pcrown.net!not-for-mail From: Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: syslogd and inn 1.5.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE Date: 07 Apr 1997 02:00:53 -0500 Organization: pcrown Lines: 51 Message-ID: <iv1z71wa.fsf@pcrown.net> References: <ragn6ci0.fsf@pcrown.net> <gergE88sCD.E9t@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal21-17.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38630 gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes: > Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> writes: > > > ># > ># INN > ># > >news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit > >news.err /var/log/news/news.err > >news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice > >news.info /var/log/news/news.info > > > > Did you create those files before sending the HUP signal to syslogd? No, I will try creating them and see what happens (and to add to the confusion, the syslogd under Redhat Linux v4.1 will create the files after the HUP signal, and it also has some other extensions). > Syslogd doesn't create files at startup time or when it gets a HUP > signal. It only opens the ones that already exist. At least, that's > the way syslogd has been in all the Unixes I've worked on. Try syslogd that ships with RedHat Linux v4.1, it creates the files after the HUP signal. It also logs that syslogd was restarted (not sure where, mine ends up in /var/log/messages). Apr 7 01:58:43 pcrown syslogd 1.3-3: restart. INN ships with its own syslogd, but I had trouble getting it compiled, I will keep trying. > The man page for syslog.conf in my v2.1.6 install drops a small hint > about this by saying when the second field (the "action" field) is a > pathname, the selected messages are "appended" to the file. The man > page for syslogd doesn't say anything on the topic. I have read and re-read the man pages, and I have a feeling I will be reading them again. Thanks for the reply! > -Greg > -- > ::::::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews gerg@netcom.com ::::::::::::::::::: > I have a map of the United States that's actual size. > -- Steven Wright > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/