Re: tail -f /var/adm/messages
Hi Johann --
You said:
> Heiko wrote:
> >What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say?
>
> I found the following sequence of lines:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Nov 4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Nov 4 09:15:24 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
> Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
> Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Nov 4 09:15:56 Johann last message repeated 20827 times
> Nov 4 09:16:57 Johann last message repeated 47428 times
> Nov 4 09:17:58 Johann last message repeated 46865 times
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> and I do not know what it means and how to fix it.
>
> Can somebody help please?
I don't know the answer exactly, except that syslog.conf has a set of
rules, which involve "selector fields". I suspect there's a typo
in one of your lines in /etc/syslog.conf. You can read more about it
by executing
man 5 syslog.conf
Alternatively, you might want extract the syslog.conf file from
a sysklog package, and compare that with your own, using some variant
of dpkg-deb -x.
HTH,
Susan Kleinmann
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