From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 17:41:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3BD7116A421 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:41:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpappas12@yahoo.com) Received: from web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C019243D48 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpappas12@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 68196 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Sep 2005 17:41:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=y1a3QjOLOPqCt+SCNn1puPiQPLpj8i3rZ6WP6nLxGanucwTnoR/64olHzDQH9miisIPPIZNFoDv7uP2eDKbV6Uw+vjqOmlpADuxKA4Z8zR4j66+MmE0HgfZsnA8jgKsTgm8oQd1DKbrkplcyWyDwxL8bUOgQnuuMfkMJ95BsamY= ; Message-ID: <20050921174143.68194.qmail@web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [71.29.142.88] by web35811.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:41:43 PDT Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:41:43 -0700 (PDT) From: George Pappas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Numeric kernel messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:41:44 -0000 I'm suddenly getting kernel messages like I've never seen, usually nothing more than a number, although I've seen other characters. But nothing informational. For example ... Message from syslogd@hypervoxel at Wed Sep 21 08:19:52 2005 ... hypervoxel kernel: 92 and Message from syslogd@hypervoxel at Wed Sep 21 09:05:23 2005 ... hypervoxel kernel: :1 Note that the ": :1" is not a typo. Running 5.3R, syslog.conf below ------------------------------------------------ *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log mail.info /var/log/maillog ftp.info /var/log/xferlog cron.* /var/log/cron *.=debug /var/log/debug.log *.emerg * console.info /var/log/console.log *.* /var/log/fullset.log local7.* /var/log/pop.log __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com