Re: Newbie questions

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Scott Bigham wrote:

> > 1.  I get repeated complaints about the nonexistence of /pipe/log .  I
> > tried mknod to create a pipe there, but got an error (maybe inappropriate
> > ioctl?).  Also, syslogd complains about no /dev/log device.  Do I need
> > to create both or only one, and how do I create it/them?
> 
> This happens to me too.  Interestingly, syslogd complains when it runs
> during the boot sequence, but works fine if I run it from the command line.
> I've taken to manually running syslogd just before firing up pppd.

I had this problem as well, the problem is that rc.net runs to soon
after syslogd. I inserted a 'sleep 1' after starting syslogd, it now
works as it should.


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