Re: sysklogd & /dev/log
Thanks for reply, Joey.
Both daemons seem to start fine, but do not seem to be logging
anything. 'plog' returns nothing, probably because ppp.log is empty.
Okay, /dev/log is a socket, but do you have any idea why it is not being
created?
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 daemon.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 2126 Jun 14 23:38 diald.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 lpr.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 12 22:43 ppp.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 uucp.log
gateway:/# ps aux |grep log
root 32681 0.0 0.5 1448 676 ? S Jun14 0:00
/sbin/syslogd
root 32683 0.1 0.5 1404 760 ? S Jun14 0:00
/sbin/klogd
gateway:/# ls -l /dev/log
ls: /dev/log: No such file or directory
Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> kerkhoff@uniserve.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For some reason sysklogd is acting up on me. Klog starts up fine, but
> > syslog complains about /dev/log: Invalid Argument. Why?? I've looked
> > for hours, but couldn't find why. /dev/log is named pipe that is
> > supposed to be created by syslog, I believe. I've tried removing &
> > purging & reinstall sysklogd, but no go. I am using potato, updated
> > daily to the latest. Syslog does start, but it does not log anything.
> > X will start, but will not start up WindowMaker.
I have gotton around this but starting X, then switching back to a
console and running xterm -display, but this is not the proper way.
>
> /dev/log is not a named pipe. That's probably the mistake. It is
> a socket instead - at least under normal circumstances.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
>
> > Has anybody ever had this problem before? Why is this happening? I
> > don't remember anything related to syslogd being upgrade lately, or
> > begin broken.
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