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Re: Syslogd trouble (was: Re: Network trouble (?) with kernel 2.0.27)



In your email to me, F. Fernandez, you wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On the following problem, I just found out that this is a syslogd
> internal message. It comes after syslogd restarts. It's like this:
> 
> - Dec 22 06:49:31 blackbird syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart.
> - Dec 22 06:49:31 blackbird syslogd: select: Bad file number
> - Dec 22 06:50:02 blackbird last message repeated 275517 times
> - Dec 22 06:51:03 blackbird last message repeated 561252 times
> - ...
>  
> Does anybody know what this means?

I'll bet you installed inn by accident, and then removed it.
If you look in your startup messages, you'll maybe see syslog
complain about /var/log/news/file not existing. If this is the
case, simply create /var/log/news, and restart syslogd, or reboot

Tim

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