On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:06:00PM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: > I think I made a boo boo. I deleted all the files from var/log thinking I > would have clean logs. Well, I rebooted but some of the files never > reapeared. I made a back up just in case.
man syslogd: For security reasons, syslogd will not append to log files that do not exist; therefore, they must be created manually before running syslogd. So the easiest way is: touch `cat /etc/syslog.conf | awk '{ print $2}' | grep var` and restart syslogd: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > Can I expect any problems in the future? You're not logging anything. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message