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Summary: need help with Domain/IX, Mail, and syslog

I've done the "sysadmin" installation of BSD4.2 on a disked DSP80 file
server, and then a "user" installation on my own DN320.  When I
executed Mail, I got two error messages, presumably from delivermail.
One of these pointed out that "/dev/../syslog" couldn't be written, so
I created one and got rid of that error message.  The other message is
"syslog: socket: IO error".  Although the mail is delivered correctly, I
have been unable to get rid of this message.  I have tried running
delivermail SUID to root, with all permission bits turned on on the
abovementioned syslog file, with no improvement.

I thought it might be because /etc/syslog wasn't running.  When I
execute /etc/syslog on my node, it returns immediately with an error
status of 72.  This means "an important system file is missing."
According to the syslog source on our VAX 4.2 BSD, this might be
because /etc/services doesn't contain a syslog entry, but /etc/services
has that entry, and exists on the file server (my node has a link to
/etc).  When I execute /etc/syslog after CRPing onto the server, it no
longer returns immediately--I take it to be running.  Nevertheless, I
still get the same message when executing Mail.  I haven't tried
rebooting the server with /etc/syslog in etc.rc.

Thanks for listening; can anyone explain how to fix the problem?

Dennis Cottel     Naval Ocean Systems Center     San Diego, CA 92152
(619) 225-2406        dennis@NOSC.ARPA        sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis