[X-Unix] debugging /etc/syslogd.conf under Leopard

[William H. Magill]

In the "good old days," (of Unix and OS X) one could simply kill off  
syslogd, and restart it as "syslogd -d".
It would hang around nicely on your terminal and tell you what was  
wrong with your conf file.

That technique no longer works. Nor does adding the -d flag to  
the .plist file.

It (launchd) apparently runs syslogd with the -d flag, but no output  
appears anywhere that I can find.

Without launchd, syslogd generates an error if you try to run "/usr/ 
sbin/syslogd -d" directly from the terminal.

So the basic question is ... does syslogd still provide the "syntax/ 
error checking which the man page claims it does?




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William H. Magill
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