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Subject: Re: syslogd failure
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> 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. ;-)


Thanks ! 

To you and everyone who replied!  You all were most helpful.

I'm sure I killed it.  I've been using the Xinside's AcceleratedX server
and didn't immediately realize the mouse device name had changed from
2.1.5 and was a little hasty in my upgrade.  ( That'll teach me!! ) An X
session stole my console and I had to power-off with out shutting down. 
I wonder tho' if it wouldn't be wise to include a clean-up of this sort
in /etc/rc, or rc.local ???

Randy