* Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> [2009-08-09 03:56]:
> > On 2009/08/08 15:25, Tim van der Molen wrote:
> > > If httpd is disabled, then syslogd doesn't have to create a socket for
> > > it.
> >
> > Other httpd's might be using this, I think it should stay.
>
> Indeed, there is a bigger issue here.
>
> If you start these services yourself by hand later, you will not have
> the log sockets that you expect, resulting in various kinds of
> failure. Perhaps we should always request that those log sockets be
> created, unconditionaly, just in case the admin decides he wants to
> add those services later. It is essentially free.
IMO yes, the answer is where does the daemon live:
$ which httpd
/usr/sbin/httpd
if it's in /usr/sbin - create it ahead of time even if you don't start
it automatically.
>
> > > Index: rc
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.331
> > > diff -u rc
> > > --- rc 7 Aug 2009 22:27:47 -0000 1.331
> > > +++ rc 8 Aug 2009 12:35:57 -0000
> > > @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
> > >
> > > echo 'starting system logger'
> > > rm -f /dev/log
> > > -if [ X"${httpd_flags}" != X"-u" ]; then
> > > +if [ X"${httpd_flags}" != X"NO" -a X"${httpd_flags}" != X"-u" ]; then
> > > rm -f /var/www/dev/log
> > > syslogd_flags="${syslogd_flags} -a /var/www/dev/log"
> > > fi
>
--
#!/usr/bin/perl
if ((not 0 && not 1) != (! 0 && ! 1)) {
print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n";
}
