Re: Two last problems...
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
>
> > Well, I alomost have a perfect Debian 1.2 system on my Thinkpad 365XD...
> >
> > Now I am down to only two problems - both of them I have seen mentioned here,
> > but I do not remember if I have seen the solutions.
> >
> > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at
> > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time
> > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing
> > in /var/log/messages' Is there a way to get syslogd to work correctly?
>
> It is probably of interest to see what that last message was. I is most
> likely that process that is overloading syslogd.
I had the same problem, syslogd was taking 97-98% of CPU time, because of
some bad file number error messages... I corrected it by commenting out
3 lines in /etc/syslogd.conf starting with news... probably the directory
/var/log/news wasnt created and syslogd tried to write to it...
Greg
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