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Date:      Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:44:14 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme)
Subject:   Re: syslogd failure
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970104014414.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <32CD9C38.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>; from Randy DuCharme on Jan 3, 1997 17:54:32 -0600
References:  <32CD9C38.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>

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As Randy DuCharme wrote:

> Syslog -d says "cannot create /var/run/log: Address already in use

rm /var/run/log

before trying to restart it.

(After some experimenting, and thinking more about all this, it seems
Jordan was indeed right.)

Anyway, it would be even more interesting to learn why it dies in the
first place...  Maybe you could start it with -d on an otherwise
unused VTY (so you might perhaps see the reason for its sudden death)?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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