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Date:      Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:18:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        pc.mackenzie@utoronto.ca (Paul MacKenzie)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" error
Message-ID:  <199906091618.MAA05994@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990609120932.009f2b60@mail.elehost.com> from Paul MacKenzie at "Jun 9, 99 12:11:05 pm"

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Paul MacKenzie wrote,
> 	Any idea why I am getting this error?
> 
> syslogd: unknown facility name "telnet" when syslogd starts
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated. I was in the process of doing a test
> reinstall of a system to see how fast I could do it and I ran into this
> problem.

Sending along a copy of your /etc/syslog.conf would probably be a good
idea. My guess is that somewhere in syslog.conf you have something
along the lines of,

telnet.info					/var/log/telnet.log

But "telnet" is an unknown facility name.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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