From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 15:59: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwd.net (Mail.DMZ.HIWD.Net [206.109.64.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3753537B897 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 15:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roger@hiwd.net) Received: from apollo (sonic.hiwd.net [206.109.64.184]) by mail.hiwd.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA96141 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:03:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000309175631.021b86f8@mail.hiwd.net> X-Sender: ranthony@mail.hiwd.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:58:37 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Roger Anthony Subject: Syslog Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running a FreeBSD 2.2.8 system which stopped running syslog (when I manually try to run it, I get 'syslogd: child pid exited with return code 1' I think I have traced it down to the fact that I have no /var/run/log file. My question is, how do I make the /var/run/log file? Do I use mknod? If so, what are the major/minors? Any help will be extremely helpful and appreciated To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message