# service syslogd start Starting syslogd. /etc/rc.d/syslogd: WARNING: failed to start syslogd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 20 19:26 /var/run/syslogd.sockets lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 May 20 19:19 /dev/log -> /var/run/log 16017: socket(PF_LOCAL,SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC,0) = 1 (0x1) 16017: connect(1,{ AF_UNIX "/var/run/logpriv" },106) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' 16017: connect(1,{ AF_UNIX "/var/run/log" },106) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' 16017: connect(1,{ AF_UNIX "/dev/log" },106) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' 16017: close(1) = 0 (0x0) 16017: sendto(-1,"<13>1 2019-05-20T19:25:10.923432"...,123,0,NULL,0) ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
Thank you for the report Jason What version of FreeBSD is currently installed (uname -a) and please include the following command output as an attachment: - cat /etc/rc.conf - cat /etc/syslog.conf - ls -la / - ls -la /var/log - ls -la /var
(In reply to Kubilay Kocak from comment #1) FreeBSD safe 12.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 # cat /etc/rc.conf ipsec_enable="YES" zfs_enable="YES" hostname="safe" syslogd_flags="-ss" devd_enable="NO" dumpdev="NO" sendmail_enable="NONE" moused_ums0_enable="NO" ntpd_enable="NO" chronyd_enable="YES" chronyd_flags="-4" sshd_enable="YES" sshd_flags="-4 -g 3" harvest_mask="351" ifconfig_cxl0="inet 10.141.254.2/16 mtu 9198 -vlanmtu -vlanhwtag -vlanhwcsum -vlanhwtso -tso6 -rxcsum6 -txcsum6 description internalnet" ifconfig_cxl1_ipv6="inet6 2620:10e:6024:f004::ca08 prefixlen 64 mtu 9000 -arp -vlanmtu -vlanhwtag -vlanhwcsum -vlanhwtso -tso4 -tso6 -rxcsum -txcsum description CCSA-HPC" ipv6_network_interfaces="cxl1" ipv6_static_routes="GlobalUnicast" ipv6_route_GlobalUnicast="-inet6 2000::/3 fe80::1%cxl1 -mtu 9000" firewall_enable="YES" firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" clear_tmp_X="NO" # cat /etc/syslog.conf # $FreeBSD: releng/12.0/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf 338146 2018-08-21 17:01:47Z brd $ # # Spaces ARE valid field separators in this file. However, # other *nix-like systems still insist on using tabs as field # separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you # may want to use only tabs as field separators here. # Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage. *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log mail.info /var/log/maillog cron.* /var/log/cron !-devd *.=debug /var/log/debug.log *.emerg * # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log # touch /var/log/console.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work #console.info /var/log/console.log # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work #*.* /var/log/all.log # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost #*.* @loghost # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice # Uncomment this if you wish to see messages produced by devd # !devd # *.>=notice /var/log/devd.log !* include /etc/syslog.d include /usr/local/etc/syslog.d # ls -al / total 40 drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 23 May 8 01:52 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 23 May 8 01:52 .. -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 951 Apr 6 16:57 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 470 Apr 6 16:57 .profile drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 46 Apr 6 17:05 bin drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 63 Apr 6 21:15 boot dr-xr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 May 8 01:51 dev -rw------- 1 root wheel 4096 May 8 01:52 entropy drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 113 May 7 17:33 etc drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 4 Jan 31 2017 home drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 61 Apr 6 17:07 lib drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4 Apr 6 16:57 libexec drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Apr 6 16:57 net dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 150 Apr 6 17:05 rescue drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 24 May 20 19:28 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 137 Apr 6 17:05 sbin lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Sep 29 2016 sys -> usr/src/sys drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 5 May 21 03:01 tmp drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 15 Feb 5 2017 usr drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 24 May 8 01:52 var # ls -la /var/log total 253 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 75 May 21 00:00 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 24 May 8 01:52 .. -rw------- 1 root wheel 25251 Apr 6 20:21 auth.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 1820 Jan 1 00:00 auth.log.0.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 8408 Sep 20 2018 auth.log.1.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 6353 Jan 1 2018 auth.log.2.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 8089 Aug 11 2017 auth.log.3.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 8117 Mar 8 2017 auth.log.4.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 8063 Jan 30 2017 auth.log.5.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 2006 Jan 1 2017 auth.log.6.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 82288 Apr 6 20:22 cron -rw------- 1 root wheel 6464 Apr 1 06:00 cron.0.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 6484 Mar 25 03:00 cron.1.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 6476 Mar 17 23:00 cron.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 12353 May 21 03:01 daily.log -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3098 May 21 00:00 daily.log.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3229 May 20 00:00 daily.log.1.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3055 May 19 00:00 daily.log.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3047 May 18 00:00 daily.log.3.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3029 May 17 00:00 daily.log.4.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3027 May 16 00:00 daily.log.5.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3013 May 15 00:00 daily.log.6.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 2266 Apr 6 17:06 debug.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 59 Oct 12 2016 devd.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 23390 May 19 03:01 dmesg.today -rw------- 1 root wheel 23125 May 8 03:01 dmesg.yesterday -rw------- 1 root wheel 696 May 16 03:01 ipfw.today -rw------- 1 root wheel 685 May 9 03:01 ipfw.yesterday -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 59 Oct 12 2016 lpd-errs -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 59 May 21 00:00 maillog -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 119 May 21 00:00 maillog.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 119 May 20 00:00 maillog.1.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 112 May 19 00:00 maillog.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 115 May 18 00:00 maillog.3.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 120 May 17 00:00 maillog.4.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 120 May 16 00:00 maillog.5.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 119 May 15 00:00 maillog.6.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 94975 Apr 6 20:22 messages -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2481 Jan 1 00:00 messages.0.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10069 Jan 1 2018 messages.1.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11384 Feb 7 2017 messages.2.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11345 Jan 12 2017 messages.3.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5630 Jan 10 2017 messages.4.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 216 May 1 05:30 monthly.log -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 205 May 1 00:00 monthly.log.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 202 Apr 1 00:00 monthly.log.1.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 197 Jul 1 2018 monthly.log.10.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 202 Jun 1 2018 monthly.log.11.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 203 Mar 1 00:00 monthly.log.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 204 Feb 1 00:00 monthly.log.3.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 202 Jan 1 00:00 monthly.log.4.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 200 Dec 1 00:00 monthly.log.5.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 202 Nov 1 2018 monthly.log.6.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 201 Oct 1 2018 monthly.log.7.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 198 Sep 1 2018 monthly.log.8.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 1 2018 monthly.log.9.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 4782 May 2 03:01 mount.today -rw------- 1 root wheel 4610 Apr 23 03:01 mount.yesterday -rw-r----- 1 root network 59 Oct 12 2016 ppp.log -rw------- 1 root wheel 59 Oct 12 2016 security -rw------- 1 root wheel 3112 Apr 7 03:01 setuid.today -rw------- 1 root wheel 3304 Dec 13 2016 setuid.yesterday -rw------- 1 root wheel 154 Apr 6 18:16 userlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 197 May 21 11:19 utx.lastlogin -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2652 May 21 11:19 utx.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6910 May 1 05:00 utx.log.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3441 Apr 1 05:00 utx.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 888 Mar 1 05:00 utx.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 162 May 18 04:15 weekly.log -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 193 May 18 00:00 weekly.log.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 194 May 11 00:00 weekly.log.1.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 197 May 4 00:00 weekly.log.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 197 Apr 27 00:00 weekly.log.3.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 195 Apr 20 00:00 weekly.log.4.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 59 Oct 12 2016 xferlog # ls -la /var total 21 drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 24 May 8 01:52 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 23 May 8 01:52 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 account drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 4 Sep 29 2016 at drwxr-x--- 4 root audit 4 Sep 29 2016 audit drwxrwx--- 2 root authpf 2 Sep 29 2016 authpf drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 15 May 21 03:01 backups drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3 Oct 13 2016 cache drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 3 Sep 29 2016 crash drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 3 Sep 29 2016 cron drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 21 May 17 15:26 db dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 empty drwxrwxr-x 2 root games 2 Sep 29 2016 games drwx------ 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 heimdal drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 75 May 21 00:00 log drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 3 Apr 6 18:16 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 3 Oct 12 2016 msgs drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Sep 29 2016 preserve drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 15 May 21 03:01 run drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 2 Sep 29 2016 rwho drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 9 Sep 29 2016 spool drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 3 Oct 23 2016 tmp drwxr-xr-x 3 unbound unbound 3 Sep 29 2016 unbound drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4 Apr 6 17:04 yp
Figured out why. /etc/services did not contain the "syslog" udp service.
Note, syslogd was started with "-ss" option, and shouldn't need to listen on a network socket.
In FreeBSD 13.0 syslogd -ss still needs an entry for syslog 514/udp in /etc/services to be able to start.