From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 15:13:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F6737B416 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.107.180.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.107.180] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165b8C-0003MS-00; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:45 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAIND5670607; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 15:13:05 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Alex Cc: buga@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd Message-ID: <20011118151305.F69555@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <001d01c1700a$4d26d920$31906596@slick> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001d01c1700a$4d26d920$31906596@slick>; from lex@internode.on.net on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:53:28PM +1030 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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 -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message