Re: syslog problems (was: Newbie questions

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >> > 1.  I get repeated complaints about the nonexistence of /pipe/log .  I
 >> > tried mknod to create a pipe there, but got an error (maybe inappropriate
 >> > ioctl?).  Also, syslogd complains about no /dev/log device.  Do I need
 >> > to create both or only one, and how do I create it/them?
 >> 
 >> This happens to me too.  Interestingly, syslogd complains when it runs
 >> during the boot sequence, but works fine if I run it from the command line.
 >> I've taken to manually running syslogd just before firing up pppd.
 >
 >I had this problem as well, the problem is that rc.net runs to soon
 >after syslogd. I inserted a 'sleep 1' after starting syslogd, it now
 >works as it should.

Or shuffle the order of the RC files, as I previously described.