[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd > > file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting > > syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message > > "-n unknown option" and it still doesn't start. > > because, written as it is shown below, you're passing -n to start-stop-daemon, > not to syslogd (I discovered this with another daemon, but think it is valid > to > syslogd too) > > > I can start it manually just fine, but that is a pain. I did nothing > > special to this system, so I assume others must have had this happen, > > too. > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -n -- > > $SYSLOGD > > try this > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- -n $SYSLOGD > > HTH > > -- > || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the > answer > ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question > ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer > ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free!
Nope. This hoses my system completely. These boot messages print: syslog: /dev/xconsole: Interrupted system call syslogd: unknown priority name "..]" syslogd: unknown priority name "" and then hangs. Thanks anyway! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."