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

[Eric F Crist]

On Sep 20, 2008, at 2:02 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

> 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?


1) man launchd
2) man launchctl

HTH
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Eric Crist