From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 10:21:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0991B37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from subliminal.tekrealm.net (subliminal.tekrealm.net [64.81.247.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7833B43FBF for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:21:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) Received: from subliminal.tekrealm.net (whoami@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by subliminal.tekrealm.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1JILgFM066391; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:21:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) Received: (from elitetek@localhost) by subliminal.tekrealm.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1JIKRd9066380; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:20:27 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: subliminal.tekrealm.net: elitetek set sender to elitetek@tekrealm.net using -f Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:20:27 -0800 From: Andrew Stuart To: Wayne Lubin Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219182027.GA66263@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Reply-To: elitetek@tekrealm.net References: <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20030219175016.97162.qmail@web41309.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030219175016.97162.qmail@web41309.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 at 09:50:16 -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: >=20 --snip-- >=20 > I don't understand what exactly is being suggested > here. >=20 > The part I don't understand is what is being said to > done with=20 >=20 > > Then: > >=20 > > # touch /var/log/console.log > > # chmod 600 /var/log/console.log > > # chown root:wheel /var/log/console/log > > # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` >=20 >=20 > Are you suggesting that we add those comments to the > file, which obviously does not make sense. Or are you > suggesting that we uncomment those lines, but in which > case does not make sense because those lines don't > exist in my file. Or are you suggesting that we add > those lines in uncommented form to the file. > --snip--=20 >=20 > Thanks >=20 Actually what he meant (wrote) is that you uncomment the line in syslogd.conf, then from the command line run the touch, chmod, chown, and kill. the #'s in 4 lines happen to be shell prompts=20 -Andrew --=20 Andrew Stuart http://www.tekrealm.net President Thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the vote. In a democracy, that's not called quitting. -- The Washington Post --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+U8rrSLAP4zYxy3URAg6oAJ9lwuJ1VstCLWAhOnOs6CG/N5ZIqgCfZog4 Ila7+yihFotZMURPfpwAe+w= =gCJQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message