[Xorp-users] Quiet Death

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin at icir.org
Tue Dec 4 21:12:19 PST 2007


Scher, Dave <dscher at mitre.org> wrote:

> > If you run "./xorp_rtrmgr -h" does it print the help information?
> 
> Yes the help information prints to the console output.
> 
> >If yes, then probably the XORP log mechanism is not working.
> >FYI, it tries to open the following three device files (in this
> >order):
> >/dev/stderr
> >/dev/console
> >/dev/stdout
> 
> >Do you have any of those devices on your platform and are they
> >writable (as root)?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> /dev/console
> /dev/stderr
> 
> Both exist and are both writable as root.  Tried a hello world and it
> does indeed output to the console.

Interesting.
Chasing the problem might take several rounds of email exchange so
lets take it off the list.
I will send you an email with some initial suggestions.

Thanks,
Pavlin



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