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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:44:32 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
Cc:        User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to not start syslogd
Message-ID:  <20071230234432.3389a010.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <542F8326-4A77-42AA-9FFF-CB8C6AD8756A@goldmark.org>
References:  <542F8326-4A77-42AA-9FFF-CB8C6AD8756A@goldmark.org>

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Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
>
> I've installed and configured syslog-ng from ports and no longer wish  
> to have the standard syslogd run.
> 
> Putting
> 
>    syslogd_enable="NO"
> 
> into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting.

The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite a few).

I suspect you've either got a typo in your rc.conf, or a corrupt/nonstandard
/etc/rc.d/syslogd file, or some other oddity preventing it from working.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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