On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:13:01PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> | > NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2 machine:
> | > 
> | > /usr/bin/newsyslog: preposterous process number: 0
> |
> | I guess something is wrong with your /var/run/syslogd.pid-file.
> | (newsyslog reads it in to find out syslogd's PID)
> | Try killing syslogd and starting it again.
> | 
> | If your syslogd creates a "syslog.pid" instead of "syslogd.pid" file in
> | /var/run you have a very old binary of syslogd laying around somewhere...
> | (Or maybe your newsyslog is too old?)
> 
>   Same problem here, on a freshly installed 1.5_ALPHA. And indeed,
> there is no syslog*.pid in /var/run. It seems the syslogd just doesn't
> create a pid file -- something broken here lately?

Ive seen something vaguely related on i486 1.4.2. Apparently, /var/run
is cleared after /etc/netstart.local runs and starts up my
(make-machine-work-without-boss-intervention:
 detect-if-ethernet-is-in-else-try-to-start-pppd) script, so I dont have
ppp*.pid there.

Something similar might happen here.

Regards,
	-is