Re: Newbie questions

[Scott Bigham <dsb@cs.duke.edu>]

On Mon, 25 May 1998, Michael Hill wrote:

> 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.

						-sbigham