Moin Ken! > > Ken Gaugler writes: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > This actually means that -n is an argument to start-stop-daemon > > > > > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- -n $SYSLOGD > > > > Now it's an argument for /sbin/syslogd. > > > > This still hoses my system.
Sure! If a program is executed at boot time which doesn't put itself in the background the system will wait for its termination. > > but please read the manual again to find yout what -n does. > > > > IT TURNS OFF AUTO-BACKGROUNDING. This means that YOUR SYSTEM WILL > > WAIT UNTIL SYSLOGD DIES - which won't be the case for sure. > > According to the manpages, > > -n Avoid auto-backgrounding. This is needed especially > if the syslogd is started and controlled by > init(8). > My system, originally a 1.1 system, has syslog starting from the > /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. This is init, as far as I know. No! This is not init, it is init.d. If you want it controlled by init, then you have to put a line similar to the next in /etc/inittab: sy:123456:respawn:/sbin/syslogd -n Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/
