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Re: Solaris syslogd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Aug 18 19:05:45 1995

To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU, bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 1995 18:33:51 EDT."
             <9508122233.AA02684@opus.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:05:36 EDT
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>

>> > I tried to use the Solaris syslogd on an Athena Sparc/5.  It did not
>> > appear to log any messages at all (not to log files, not via zephyr).
>> > I was alos unable to find a way to kill it other than kill -9.
>> 
>> Hrumph. If you run with debugging?

It tells me exactly why it's losing, of course. :-)

It's trying to open /etc/nsyslog.conf, which is the file we use on the
DECstation, however, to the best of my knowledge we should be using
/etc/syslog.conf on all othe platforms.

	Jonathon

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