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From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: syslogd and inn 1.5.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:36:13 GMT
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Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> writes:
>
>#
># INN
>#
>news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
>news.err /var/log/news/news.err
>news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
>news.info /var/log/news/news.info
>
Did you create those files before sending the HUP signal to syslogd?
Syslogd doesn't create files at startup time or when it gets a HUP
signal. It only opens the ones that already exist. At least, that's
the way syslogd has been in all the Unixes I've worked on.
The man page for syslog.conf in my v2.1.6 install drops a small hint
about this by saying when the second field (the "action" field) is a
pathname, the selected messages are "appended" to the file. The man
page for syslogd doesn't say anything on the topic.
-Greg
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