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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
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Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:11:06AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
> no syslogd expert, but I suspect that some buffer that syslogd writes to is
> full, so it's blocking, so su blocks waiting for syslogd to accept its message
> (or something vaguely along those lines).

Can you run top and find the syslogd line and see what state it is in?

	David.

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