On POSIX conformant systems, shutdown() should return ENOTCONN when not connected. We attempted to fix this once (kern/84761), but this change got backed out because it 'breaks code' (r150155). I just reapplied the patch and indeed, syslogd fails on startup. Make it easier to re-enable this change in the future by paching up syslogd to do the right thing. MFC after: 3 weeks Sponsored by: Nuxi