Re: Another syslog problem: "Bad File Number"

To: listas2@that.com.br (Nelson Posse Lago)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Another syslog problem: "Bad File Number"
From: joey@tapiola.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 11:03:12 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] m0wDnqz-0003ggC@tapiola.Infodrom.North.DE>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970406013446.26159B-100000@laranjada.that.com.br>; from Nelson Posse Lago on Apr 6, 1997 01:38:13 -0300
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970406013446.26159B-100000@laranjada.that.com.br>

Nelson Posse Lago writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've setup debian on a friend's box and syslog puts the message:
> 
> syslog: don't-remember-what Bad File Number
> 
> on /var/log/messages, then it says "last message repeated 437835 times"
> several times and keeps the load average at around 1. Anyone knows what
> is this? This is a 486 with an ide disk, Debian 1.2, nothing "weird" about
> it, just a normal installation.

I believe that I have fixd this bug in the most recent upload.  Please
fetch a release out of the bo directory.  If the problem still occurs,
please let me know.

(btw. the problem is that syslog tries to access /var/log/news/log which
doesn't exist anymore because you have removed inn)

Joey

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