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Date:      12 Nov 1999 16:14:23 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf
Message-ID:  <86aeojokzk.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: "Majid Almassari"'s message of "Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:48:59 -0800"
References:  <04c001bf2ba3$86128ed0$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> <19991111150529.A718@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <003f01bf2c08$7e80e440$0e91ddd1@balfourplace.com>

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"Majid Almassari" <majid@ibroadcast.net> writes:

>  I appreciate your help, it works now. In RedHat 5.2 syslog does create the
> log file automatically once you specify it in /etc/syslog.conf thats what
> made me wonder. I got remember that I'm not dealing with RedHat here! Thanx

Well, on a close inspection of `man syslog.conf' I realized that the
only reference to this kind of behavior is:

    o   A pathname (beginning with a leading slash).  Selected messages
	are appended to the file.

which does not clearly specify if the file is created on demand or not.
Probably a candidate for a PR here.  I really ought to read about
send-pr in the handbook and elsewhere.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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