syslog stopped logging on x86_64?

[Jeff Sheltren]

On May 13, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:09:22AM -0700, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 13, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm getting incorrect
>>> sizes for this file on i386 too:
>>>
>
> No, you are not.
>
>
>>
>> Before I enter a bug report, I have noticed an
>> error message on the console when starting syslogd, which is also
>> shown when starting syslogd with -d:
>>
>> # syslogd -d
>> Allocated parts table for 1024 file descriptors.
>> Starting.
>> Called logerr, msg: network logging disabled (syslog/udp service
>> unknown).
>>
>
> And here is a problem although what is an underlying reason is not
> clear from the above.  Do you have something like 'syslog 514/udp'
> entry in /etc/services?   Or this could be something else.
>
> As for 'ls' this is  not a bug but a documented property. If you
> want to see a size of a file in terms of disk blocks then you are
> not using '-l' flag which means something different.  For "dense"
> files these two numbers are related but for "sparse" this is really
> not the case.
>
>    Michal
>
Hi Michal, thanks for the response.  Well, the lastlog thing is  
apparently unrelated anyway, but I'm still having the syslog  
problems.  Yes, I have checked in /etc/services and the syslog entry  
is there.

-Jeff