Re: Oddity in /var/adm/messages
mkdir /var/log/news
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> I have noticed something strange in my logfiles.
> Since march 8, my /var/adm/messages show only lines like these:
>
> Mar 12 22:14:23 souterrain syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
> Mar 12 22:14:25 souterrain kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Mar 12 22:14:26 souterrain syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
> Mar 12 22:14:26 souterrain syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Mar 12 22:14:57 souterrain last message repeated 5011 times
> Mar 12 22:15:58 souterrain last message repeated 9839 times
> Mar 12 22:16:59 souterrain last message repeated 17600 times
> Mar 12 22:18:00 souterrain last message repeated 20837 times
> Mar 12 22:19:01 souterrain last message repeated 21146 times
> Mar 12 22:20:02 souterrain last message repeated 20746 times
> Mar 12 22:21:03 souterrain last message repeated 21005 times
>
> This is after a fresh restart. My /var/adm/daemon is empty ever since, and
> so are a few other log files. When I do a top, /sbin/syslogd$ is the process
> devouring all my resources. I really do not know what has happened. I did do
> some playing around with the system arount the 8th... The system does seem
> to run well.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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