Re: syslogd with log files in /tmp

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Thursday, April 30, 2009 a las 11:42:18AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
>
>> syslogd_enable="YES"
>> syslogd_flags="-s -C"
>>
>> on reboot it seems that syslogd has no logfiles (as I can see with
>> lsof), but after I restart it with
>>
>> # /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
>>
>> all is fine; maybe this is because syslogd is started before tmpmfs is
>> ready? in RELENG_7 it worked exactly this way, now in CURRENT not;
>> any idea how to solve this?
>
> it has todo with the order if rc files:
>
> CURRENT:
>
> # rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* | cat -n | egrep 'syslogd|tmp'
>    61  /etc/rc.d/syslogd
>    76  /etc/rc.d/tmp
>    77  /etc/rc.d/cleartmp
>
> 7.0-REL:
>
> # rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* | cat -n | egrep 'syslogd|tmp'
>    56  /etc/rc.d/tmp
>    57  /etc/rc.d/cleartmp
>    64  /etc/rc.d/syslogd
>
> I will insert 'REQUIRE: tmp' in /etc/rc.d/syslogd
>
>        matthias
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An alternative that doesn't require reordering or changes to the rc.d
script is to setup your mfs in /etc/fstab instead of in /etc/rc.conf:

md   /tmp   mfs   rw,-s128m 2 0



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