Elie Rosenblum writes: > On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > 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. > > When it says 'starting from init', it means 'starting from /etc/inittab.'
Correct, you got it. Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/