From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 15:48:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A76B37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5974943F93 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h67Mm1sw076093; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:48:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h67Mm02b006651; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:48:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:47:59 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: twig les In-Reply-To: <20030707205750.61828.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030708084153.V6312-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:48:05 -0000 On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, twig les wrote: > Also, I found some strange output in /var/log/messages.0.gz on > the machine that locked up. There is an identical machine (same > hardware and config) that did *not* have any of this stuff. The > last line in the message below (the "Device not configured") is > repeated hundreds of times. I've pasted it below ... does > anyone know what this indicates? I tried google, but found > nothing conclusive. > > ================================================================ > > Jul 3 10:00:00 mas02 newsyslog[14137]: logfile turned over [...snip] > Jul 3 10:51:32 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Invalidating > pack > Jul 3 12:00:02 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1388 > Jul 3 13:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1389 > Jul 3 14:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1390 > Jul 3 15:00:00 mas02 /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP > 127.0.0.1:25 from 127.0.0.1:1391 > Jul 3 16:14:40 mas02 last message repeated 17 times > Jul 3 16:16:51 mas02 last message repeated 30 times > Jul 3 20:15:00 mas02 /usr/sbin/cron[14546]: login_getclass: > retrieving class information: Device not configured Your disk has died and the kernel has turned it off. This is bad because it seems to be your root disk. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/