From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 10:24:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8C737B405 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CA743F85 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from fishballoon.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030219182408.EYVI3191.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.org>; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:24:08 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JINdh9012658; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:23:39 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1JIOvVW066485; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:24:57 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:24:56 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Wayne Lubin Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219182456.GA66250@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20030219153350.GA53851@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20030219175016.97162.qmail@web41309.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030219175016.97162.qmail@web41309.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 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 Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:50:16AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > > I don't understand what exactly is being suggested > here. > > The part I don't understand is what is being said to > done with > > > Then: > > > > # touch /var/log/console.log > > # chmod 600 /var/log/console.log > > # chown root:wheel /var/log/console/log > > # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > > > Are you suggesting that we add those comments to the > file, which obviously does not make sense. Or are you > suggesting that we uncomment those lines, but in which > case does not make sense because those lines don't > exist in my file. Or are you suggesting that we add > those lines in uncommented form to the file. He's suggesting you run those commands in your shell after making the edits to syslog.conf. The '#' means you need to run the commands as root (it's a typical shell prompt for root logins). HTH, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message