Re: Private XF-Mail package available
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Britton wrote:
> Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart.
> Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd 1.3-0#11: restart.
> Aug 31 17:15:04 Beleriand syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Aug 31 17:15:34 Beleriand last message repeated 218053 times
> Aug 31 17:16:34 Beleriand last message repeated 472675 times
> Aug 31 17:17:34 Beleriand last message repeated 472623 times
> etc. ad infinitum
>
> Note that this log was checked immediately after a reboot.
this is happening because syslog.conf is telling syslogd to use a log
file in /var/log/news. unfortunately, the directory doesn't exist. even
more unfortunately, syslogd repeatedly tries to open the log file.
this is a known problem, with a few easy fixes.
1. upgrade to a newer syslogd package.
or
2. edit /etc/syslog.conf and comment out (put # at start of line) all
references to logfiles in /var/log/news.
then type '/etc/init.d/sysklogd reload'
or
3. mkdir /var/log/news
BTW, what version of debian are you running? are you still running
debian 1.2 (aka "rex")? I thought this problem was fixed some time ago
- long before 1.3 was released.
craig
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