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sun4 7.7K: syslogd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhawk@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 4 16:17:05 1995

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 16:17:01 EST

System name:		w20-575-26
Type and version:	SPARC/Classic 7.7K
Display type:		cgthree

What were you trying to do?
	Find afsd syslogs for previous bug report.

What's wrong:
	syslogd does not seem to respond to syslogs.
	Note the attached typescript. A funny anomaly is that
	syslogd cannot bind to it's port; I have no idea why, there is
	no syslogd running. It's not in the script, but /dev/klog doesn't
	exist.

---cut
Script started on Wed Jan 04 16:11:01 1995
w20-575-26# cat /etc/syslog.conf
[...]
*.alert;auth.notice			/dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;local0.info		/usr/adm/messages
[...]
w20-575-26# logger -p user.alert
foo
^D
w20-575-26# ps -ef | grep syslog
    root   102     1 20 14:34:00 ?          0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
    root   967   959  6 16:11:36 pts/1      0:00 grep syslog
w20-575-26# kill 102
w20-575-26# syslogd -d &
[1] 968
w20-575-26# syslogd: bind: Cannot assign requested address
logmsg: pri 53, flags 4, from w20-575-26, msg syslogd: bind: Cannot assign requested address
Logging to CONSOLE /dev/console
can't open /dev/klog (2)
off & running....
init
cfline(*.panic					!*)
cfline(*.warning;kern,user.notice		@WSLOGGER.MIT.EDU)
cfline(*.alert;auth.notice			/dev/console)
cfline(*.notice;kern.debug;local0.info		/usr/adm/messages)
cfline(local1.info;auth.notice			/usr/adm/sulog)
cfline(mail.info				/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X WALL: 
5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 X UNUSED: 
1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 X CONSOLE: /dev/console
7 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 X FILE: /usr/adm/messages
X X X X 5 X X X X X X X X X X X X 6 X X X X X X X FILE: /usr/adm/sulog
X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
logmsg: pri 56, flags 4, from w20-575-26, msg syslogd: restart
syslogd: restarted
readfds = 0x8

w20-575-26# logger -p user.alert FOO
w20-575-26# jobs
[1]  + Running                syslogd -d
w20-575-26# kill %1
w20-575-26# syslogd: exiting on signal 15
syslogd: exiting on signal 15
logmsg: pri 53, flags 4, from w20-575-26, msg syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Logging to UNUSED
Logging to FILE /usr/adm/messages

[1]    Done                   syslogd -d
w20-575-26# syslogd
w20-575-26# logger -p user.alert BAR
w20-575-26# tail /var/adm/messages
Jan  4 16:11:51 w20-575-26 syslogd: exiting on signal 15
w20-575-26# 
script done on Wed Jan 04 16:12:14 1995

What should have happened:

	syslogd should work

--jhawk


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