Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
On Sun Mar 04, 2001 at 12:31:57AM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
>
> It doesn't happen all the time and when it does we are in the middle of
> downloading packages, so it isn't that the connection isn't getting started.
> One time it died when it had gotten all the way to 'findutils'. I tried
> http.us.debian.org and it happenned. Next time I tried ftp.debian.org and I
> didn't have a problem. I have never seen this happen on my normal system, so
> possibly there is a problem with busybox wget. Once I put a sniffer on it
> though, it didn't happen again :-(
Ick. a heisenbug!
> - syslogd not working, maybe it is because /dev/log doesn't exist, I get tail:
> /var/log/messages: No such file or directory I ctrl-C it a few times and try
> manually starting syslogd, mkfifo /dev/log, eventually it works, not sure
> what I actually needed to do.
You shouldn't need to create /dev/log, since syslogd does that itself.
I usually do a 'touch /var/log/messages' before starting tail, just
to be sure it doesn't give that message. As for why syslogd isn't
starting up -- no idea. If you don't find I can take a look.
-Erik
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