Re: syslogd and 2.1.14

Nicholas J. Leon (lists-nicholas@binary9.net)
Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:49:28 -0500 (EST)

Keith Owens was overheard whispering ...
# > any suggestions???
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# syslogd prior to 1.3.1 gets segv on a NULL pointer after gethostbyname if
# the hostname cannot be resolved. Sounds like your nameserver is not
# resolving the hostname.

More likely than not syslog is being launched far before the ethernet
devices (or even named) come up.

A valid /etc/hosts file should fix this, it did mine.

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