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[Alan Hicks <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
> Sympa cannot see the socket /var/run/log
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you running?
> -----6.2
> Check to see if syslogd is running
> ps -ax |grep syslogd
> -----root      1112  0.0  0.5  1376   908  ??  Ss    3:19PM   0:00.11 syslogd
> -----root      1541  0.0  0.1   372   252  p0  R+    6:43PM   0:00.00 grep
> syslogd
> Try restarting the service
> /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
> -----I did it and nothing
>
> If this does not fix the issue then see what log sockets should be created. 
> You
> should see /var/run/log
> ------file is empty
> cat /var/run/syslogd.sockets
> ------file is empty
Quick answer is to add /var/run/log to /var/run/syslogd.sockets then 
restart syslog. If this does not work then you have an out of date 
/etc/rc.d/syslogd script.

Longer answer is to review your system.  My guess is that you have 
upgraded from an earlier release of FreeBSD and missed something, 
possibly the mergemaster step.  The Handbook should be able to help. 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
There are other languages http://www.freebsd.org/doc/

Alan