From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 15:08:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:08:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02180 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.053 #3) id 0zfXTw-0001zD-00; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:50:52 +0000 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:50:51 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: syslogd died w/ signal 4 Message-ID: <19981116225051.A7580@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.1.19981116124030.03466970@mail.computeralt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981116124030.03466970@mail.computeralt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott I. Remick wrote: > I saw the following in my nightly "server security check output" on Friday > morning: > > ---------------- > > server kernel log messages: > > pid 70 (syslogd), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) > > ---------------- > > What does signal 4 mean? Where can I go to read up on these signals? /usr/include/sys/signal.h (you'll see signal four is an illegal instruction.) > Any thoughts as to what might have caused this? No, sorry. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message