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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        dan@dpcsys.com, jritorto@tsoft.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: migrating to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199810211706.KAA04549@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981021095056.9721B-100000@java.dpcsys.com>

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>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:52:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>

>Here's the /var directory structure.  I can't think of any files
>that need to be present (doesn't mean there aren't any :)

It's my recollection that syslogd won't actually create the files to
which it's told to log things, so they need to exist.  A casual perusal
of the syslogd.c verifies that the files are opened without O_CREAT.

david
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