Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
On Tue Apr 10, 2001 at 01:44:02AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> It's not starting up because syslogd thinks it support -K argument (in
> the getopt line) but in fact it doesn't. And we're using the '-K'
> argument.
>
> I'm going to remove that argument for now. What did it used to do? I
> wonder if we need it.
There was a time when 'syslogd -K' spawned klogd. In recent versions of
busybox, klogd is now its own applet. So the -K argument should go, and you
should probably also start up klogd as well now to get the same effect.
-Erik
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