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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Derk <johnderk@infoserve.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: root mail message: newsyslog...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061252070.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35C581E0.8B23C31C@infoserve.net>

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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, John Derk wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have been repeatedly getting the following mail from the bsd 2.2.6
> system to myself (as root):
> 
>      The re line refers to /usr/bin/newsyslog, while the body says
> "newsyslog: can't open /var/run/syslog.pid file to restart a daemon: No
> such file or directory
>   newsyslog: log not compressed because daemon not notified."
> 
> Can anyone tell me what it means? Or do I need to provide more info?

Is syslogd running?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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