From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 10:07:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11507 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11473 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA04549; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:06:12 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810211706.KAA04549@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: dan@dpcsys.com, jritorto@tsoft.net Subject: Re: migrating to FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:52:25 -0700 (PDT) >From: Dan Busarow >Here's the /var directory structure. I can't think of any files >that need to be present (doesn't mean there aren't any :) It's my recollection that syslogd won't actually create the files to which it's told to log things, so they need to exist. A casual perusal of the syslogd.c verifies that the files are opened without O_CREAT. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message