Re: Syslog doesn't start at boot

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:56 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have an odd problem with my 3 week old -current install - syslogd
> > isn't started. Or rather, it is started before lo0 is up and it
> > fails to start, eg..
>
> Odd.  What does "rcorder /etc/rc.d/*" show?
>
> The rc.d REQUIRE lines should prevent this from happening: (this is
> on a RELENG_7 system, but it should be similar on HEAD)

I've attached the output.

> ga9_at_buffy% grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/syslogd
> # REQUIRE: mountcritremote cleanvar newsyslog
>
> ga9_at_buffy% grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote
> # REQUIRE: NETWORKING FILESYSTEMS cleanvar ipsec
>
> ga9_at_buffy% grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/NETWORKING
> # REQUIRE: netif netoptions routing network_ipv6 isdnd ppp
> # REQUIRE: routed mrouted route6d mroute6d resolv
>
> (I believe it's netif that configures the network interfaces)

Mine's the same..
[inchoate 19:53] ~ >grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/syslogd
# REQUIRE: mountcritremote cleanvar newsyslog
[inchoate 19:53] ~ >grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING FILESYSTEMS cleanvar ipsec
[inchoate 19:53] ~ >grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/NETWORKING
# REQUIRE: netif netoptions routing network_ipv6 ppp
# REQUIRE: defaultroute routed mrouted route6d mroute6d resolv

I can't find any reference to syslogd outside of the syslogd rc.d script 
either..

Argh!
I've replaced syslogd with a script which logs where it's being run from 
so hopefully that will be more illuminating.

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