From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 0:56:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83EBA37B5C8 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com) Received: from 184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.215.184]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:55:12 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA44729; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:56:09 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Peter Van Epp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd -s -a xxx on 4.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20000801005609.C35074@184.215.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200007311827.LAA01738@fraser.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200007311827.LAA01738@fraser.sfu.ca>; from vanepp@sfu.ca on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:27:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:27:54AM -0700, Peter Van Epp wrote: > Am I making an obvious mistake or is the -a option to syslog broken? > On a 4.1-RELEASE machine I'm attempting to log from the network to /data/local1 > to 6. This has been working (modulo syslog dying, which is part of the reason > for the upgrade) without the -s -a options to syslogd and still does if I > start syslogd without those options. This is the syslog.conf file (for all > tests): [snip] I snipped the debug output because it really did not help me much. From what was there, it looked like both were working. > So, have I misconfigured it or is it broken? I'm guessing maybe a bit of both. Why are you using -s and -a together? Those two flags seem almost mutually exclusive to me. I don't really understand what you are actually trying to do. Why is '-s' there? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message