Re: tail -f /var/adm/messages
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote:
> 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 bet it's slowing down your system a lot.
It happened to me when I deleted INN: syslog was looking for /var/log/news,
and the directory had been deleted.
Making /var/log/news again solved the problem.
Look into /etc/syslog.conf to see what's the matter.
All The Best,
Marco
C:\NGRTLTNS.W95 !!!!
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
Reply to: