Re: syslog errors

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Walter L. Preuninger II, you wrote:
> 
> Last night while trying to figure out why cron was not starting up, there
> were no S89cron files in /etc/rc[2-5].d, something happened to my syslog.
> Now all I get is
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart.
> Jan 12 13:39:47 walterp syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Jan 12 13:40:17 walterp last message repeated 140355 times
> 
> I cant find anything wrong with /etc/syslog.conf, and finally have my
> system set up the way I like, so I dont want to reload.

Heh. I bet you had inn loaded at one point, and then deleted it.
Make sure the dir /var/log/news exists, and it should be better.

Tim

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