6.2 rc file problems

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:40:44PM -0800, Brian wrote:
> I've started getting emails like this for the last few days after a 
> system build.
> 
> newsyslog: can't open pid file: /var/run/syslog.pid: No such file or 
> directory
> newsyslog: log /var/log/maillog.0 not compressed because daemon(s) not 
> notified
> 
> In looking at the syslog rc file, I see pidfile="/var/run/syslog.pid" 
> even though the file in that folder is now /var/run/syslogd.sockets.
> The second error I am a little less sure about.  Googling I saw either 
> inadequate syslogd exec privilege, or a potential relation to the first 
> problem?

Seems to me the problem has to do with syslogd not running when
newsyslog attempts to send syslog a signal (hence why newsyslog is
trying to read /var/run/syslog.pid).

A system with a running syslogd has this in /var/run:

-rw-------    1 root       wheel         3 30 Oct 22:00 syslog.pid
-rw-r--r--    1 root       wheel        36 30 Oct 22:00 syslogd.sockets

It sounds like syslogd on your box may have died off for some reason
prior to newsyslog running to do log rotation.

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