try starting syslog by hand in debugging mode and capture/tee /sbin/syslogd -d | tee syslog_debug.out (will pipe output to screen and the file syslog_debug.out) You may be able to deciper the problem from the debugging, otherwise post the output here and maybe we can help from there. > On Monday 01 March 2004 18:09 terry white's cat walking on the keyboard > wrote: > >> on "3-1-2004" "Luca Ferrari" writ: >> : The problem is that syslog does not start too >> >> ... ciao: >> >> what does "chkconfig --list syslog" show you. > > It says that syslog should be running on my runlevel (5): > syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on > 6:off > > but at the boot syslog says it cannot start. > Any idea? > > Luca > > -- > Luca Ferrari, > fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" > in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
