Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:05 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Alex <lex@internode.on.net> Cc: buga@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd Message-ID: <20011118151305.F69555@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <001d01c1700a$4d26d920$31906596@slick>; from lex@internode.on.net on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:53:28PM %2B1030 References: <001d01c1700a$4d26d920$31906596@slick>
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:53:28PM +1030, Alex wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have an issue with syslogd that I'm not sure how to resolve.
>
>
> I'm running 5.0-CURRENT:
>
> I get this dmsg error:
>
> pid 207 (syslogd), uid 0; exited on signal 6 (core dumped).
>
> I have checked the Bug Tracking archives at www.au.freebsd.org and found nothing
> that talks about a broken syslogd.
>
> This is happening on 2 machines with the same 5.0-CURRENT snapshot, suggesting that syslogd is broken.
Which snapshot might this be?
> Does anyone know about this ? (And yes I have scaled the mail archives of -CURRENT)
I don't.
> If I start the syslogd from the shell I get this error:
>
> syslogd: cannot create /var/run/log: Invalid argument
> syslogd: child pid 516 exited with return code 1
There are a number of different calls that could be failing to produce
that error. Could you,
# ls -l /var/run
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