[H-GEN] syslog

A Bruce in the Land of the Bruces brucec at humbug.org.au
Fri Nov 7 05:59:39 EST 1997


On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:

> > My system isn't up at the moment to check...but I'm pretty sure that Syslogd
> > won't *create* a file.  It will only open and append to an existing one.
> 
> The syslogd man page on my system implies that syslogd does create
> files:

Only when it starts up.  Observed behaviour does not create a file if you
remove it then HUP syslogd.

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Bruce.


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