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by **Harry M. Fuc** » Sun, 04 Aug 1996 04:00:00

i'm having trouble creating the device 'log' (/dev/log). it should have the
permissions srw-rw-rw- , but how do i get the 's'-permission ???

thanx in advance,

Harry

by **B.A.McCau..** » Wed, 07 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>i'm having trouble creating the device 'log' (/dev/log).

So don't.

Quote:> it should have the
>permissions srw-rw-rw- , but how do i get the 's'-permission ???

If you are not *writing* a program that listens to a named socket then
you need not worry about creating it. Simply delete any file named
/dev/log and let syslogd create the socket next time it runs.

FYI here is the releavant bit of an strace of syslogd to show how it's
actually done:

unlink("/dev/log") = 0
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, , 0) = 0
bind(0, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/dev/log"}, 10) = 0
chmod("/dev/log", 0666) = 0
listen(0, 5) = 0

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create a srw-rw-rw- device ?

create a srw-rw-rw- device ?

create a srw-rw-rw- device ?