On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: > I'm running Debian 1.1 on a machine here and as of a few days ago syslogd > has stopped working. If I run the daemon manually it runs for about 30 > seconds and then stops. I've tried removing the sysklogd package (using > the --force option) and re-installing it again to no avail. > > -- > Dermot Bradley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Communications Director Tel: 01232 560552 > Genesis Project Ltd Fax: 01232 560553 > Belfast & Derry, Northern Ireland WWW: http://www.gpl.net/ >
I had the same problem and mis-diagnosed it too! I wound up upgrading the sysklogd package and thought it was the answer, but it turns out it wasn't. Here's basically what happened on my system: I went through the install and configured my system to be called "debian" as the install does if you don't have a nic card to configure. I then restored my home directories (I came over from Slackware) and configs and connected to the net using ppp. My ppp connect script updates my /etc/hosts file with hte new dynamic IP address and changes my hostname to dummypc. This was intended to be a temporary setup, but it worked so I never changed it :). I was using a template file to change the hosts file using sed. The template file didn't have an entry for "debian" as a valid host. syslogd wouldn't run, I'm assuming because it couldn't resolve the hostname returned by "uname -n" to an IP address. I changed my script to echo a series of commands to ed and edit the existing hosts file (with a valid debian entry) and all seems to work fine. I don't know for sure if my diagnosis is right here, but I haven't had any problems since. Please check this on your system and let me know if something similar has happened. I'm curious to see if that was really it or not. What ever name is returned by "hostname" or "uname -n" (should be the same?) should have a valid entry in /etc/hosts. Thanks Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************
