From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 09:11:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08524 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:11:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (CEDB.DPCSYS.com [207.124.154.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08518 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA17127; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:56:50 GMT Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:56:47 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: syslogd runaway on 2.2-BETA In-Reply-To: <199702030825.JAA23458@freebie.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > Dan Busarow writes: > > Mem: 3632K Active, 508K Inact, 1384K Wired, 696K Cache, 517K Buf, 696K Free > > Swap: 26M Total, 64K Used, 25M Free > > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > > 79 root 98 0 196K 552K RUN 11:24 99.22% 99.22% syslogd > > Strange. > > What does your /etc/syslog.conf look like? It was the stock 2.2-BETA_A issue. I've commented out the logging to /dev/console and added *.err to /var/log/messages > Does syslogd print any > messages when it starts? Try stopping it and restarting it to find It takes about 30 seconds before it detaches and then prints syslogd: timed out waiting for child > out. Make sure, of course, that the problem persists after you > restart it. Also, if you have ktrace enabled in the kernel, check > what it's doing. Still the same. I'll build a new kernel and give that a try. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82