Re: pipe/log: not found

[Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk>]

Firstly, at last I've had some time to reply to a message, hurrah!

>I have tried and tried to get syslogd to run and load the log file.
>
>If made sure I'm switched to drive U:, I've put it in my Mint.CNF, tried it
>in RC and RC.NET, but the only way it works is when I load it after logging
>in as root.
>(Default User=root)
>
>In Mint.CNF
>I tried
>
>cd u:\
>exec /bin/sh /etc/syslogd

This won't work as MiNT knows nothing of forward slashes ("/").

>In RC I tried
>if [ -f /etc/syslogd ] ; then
>        /etc/syslogd &
>        echo -n "System Log started"
>fi
>
>In the Rc I'm always told "syslogd.prg: No such user or pid...."

Hmm.. looks like either a broken shell (which needs an extension on a file
to execute it) or you've not given the executable executable permission.

>I'm running out of straws, as I can't run most Mint Net stuff without this,
>and would like for it to come up automagically....
>
>If anyone could just send me a sample of how they started it...that would be
>helpful.

Grab my MiNTOS package, it has sample rc files. It can be anonymously ftp'd
from earth.ox.ac.uk in /pub/mintos.

Steve

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