Re: what could be causing empty log/current files?

Daryl Tester <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:51:32 +0930
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
jaymax wrote:

> permissions as recommended according to Levine's text, it should have shown
>        status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Could anyone say what I might have missed

I don't think tcpserver issues a status line until the program has
terminated, so you won't see anything in the logs until a connection
has been made.  This is why I typically stick an echo early in the
run script (if using daemontools) so that you can see when the
process starts.


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