Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:22:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help figuring out what I broke Message-ID: <p05101509b8b85c74843b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3C92A234.3000704@mac.com> References: <3C92A234.3000704@mac.com>
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At 5:39 PM -0800 3/15/02, paul beard wrote: >I have a 4.4-STABLE system that I somehow managed to break >in some subtle way. I boneheaded removed some files in /var/log >(simple fatfingering) and they didn't re-appear (messages, >et al) as I thought they would. check /etc/syslog.conf to see what files it references. iirc, syslog does not create files if they do not already exist, so that's at least some of your missing files. >Worse still, the box just stopped doing its job: it serves >as my router/gateway for my home network and it just stopped >passing packets. I do not know what missing file would cause this. Sorry. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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