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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.graphics.cornell.edu!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: error message during boot Date: 7 Jul 1994 20:43:12 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2vhice$3n4@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2vdg60$hej@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2vdg60$hej@ohlone.kn.PacBell.COM>, Sherman Mui <smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM> wrote: >syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address > >I checked all the destinations in syslog.conf and they are all valid. I >don't have /dev/log though. Might that be the problem? It is surprising... The /dev/log is not a device but a Unix-domain socket which get created each time you boot the computer /etc/rc ------------------------------------------------------------ echo -n 'starting system logger' rm -f /dev/log syslogd ------------------------------------------------------------ I see in the source where you get the error but I don't why you get it... -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) CURRENT_145#0 i386