syslogd beserk

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

Hi,

Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is
constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system.  It appends messages to
/var/log/messages like

Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number
Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times
Nov 12 11:13:37 pebbles last message repeated 465160 times
Nov 12 11:14:38 pebbles last message repeated 470270 times
Nov 12 11:15:39 pebbles last message repeated 468368 times
Nov 12 11:16:40 pebbles last message repeated 466648 times
Nov 12 11:17:41 pebbles last message repeated 465624 times
Nov 12 11:18:42 pebbles last message repeated 461256 times
Nov 12 11:19:43 pebbles last message repeated 462968 times
Nov 12 11:20:44 pebbles last message repeated 468731 times
Nov 12 11:21:45 pebbles last message repeated 461928 times

How do I go about to find out what select call from what process is
causing this?  Or is it syslogd itself looking at some corrupted file?
Restarting syslogd or rebooting the machine doesn't help.

Thanks in advance,

Eric Meijer

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