Syslog doesn't start at boot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Antonio A Hilario wrote:
> > I ran mergemaster -s and it did find a few changes (worringly) but
> > the rc.d ones were just removing 'noprofile' from the keyword line
> > which I don't think would affect things.
>
> Noticed that your network interface is being brought up * after * the
> sysklogd startup script runs. I'd try to maybe move the
> 'syslog_enable="YES"' directive in /etc/rc.conf to some point after
> the ifconfig_*=* lines.

I don't think that will have an effect - lines in rc.conf aren't 
ordered. The scripts just source them and they assign variables and 
action is taken based on what is set.

I don't actually enable/disable syslog in rc.conf, I just use the 
default setting (from /etc/defaults/rc.conf)

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