Re: syslogd will not start

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:

> For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd
> file.  The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting
> syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message
> "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start.

> Here are the lines in my /etc/init.d/sysklogd file:
> 
> SYSLOGD=""
> 
> #  Use KLOGD="-k /boot/System.map-2.0" to specify System.map
> #
> KLOGD=""
> 
> case "$1" in
>   start)
>     echo -n "Starting system log daemon: syslogd"
>     start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -n --
> $SYSLOGD

Here's mine. I didn't ch9ange mine either!


case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting system log daemon: syslogd"
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD

...RickM...