syslog on 4.2BSD

[avolio at decuac.UUCP]

In article <242 at sysdes.UUCP>, dk at sysdes.UUCP writes:
> Can anyone explain why a vanilla 4.2BSD setup (no ethernet etc)
> *always* produces 
>     syslog: send: Network Unavailable


Syslog uses sockets to write out its information (I suspect you aren't
getting anything logged to /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog, are you?).  You
must have a valid entry for `localhost'  in /etc/hosts for it to work.
Such as....

# Host Database
#
127.0.0.1 localhost

If you are not on any other network, you can add your hostname to that
line.  But localhost (note, it is that string, not your host name!)
needs to be there.
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