From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jan 14 22:43:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (unknown [198.79.110.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D6137B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA02381; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200101150643.WAA02381@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:43:32 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: Something strange in a 4.2 FreeBSD Box To: roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010114175023.A7680@arp.unibe.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14 Jan, Tobias Roth wrote: >> On 14 Jan, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: >> > >> > Every week I need to reboot my FreeBSD 4.2 machine, I noticed >> > that it only works for seven days. In a randomic hour in the seven day, it >> > blocks. I really don't know what is happening but, I looked at logs and this >> > message appeared : >> > >> > Jan 13 18:06:23 soure /kernel: >> > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed >> > >> > Does anyone know what is happening and How can I fix it ? >> > >> It looks like you either ran out of swap space or >> your Hard drive is failing around your swap space. >> Or the controller or driver is being flake. >> >> Could you post more information on your system? >> Maybe someone else has some solid ideas. >> Specifically use dmesg(8) and pstat(8). > > Could you please NOT post more information on your system? > In case you haven't noticed, this is freebsd-security and not freebsd-questions. > Thank you for not asking or answering questions that are not related to security. > greets, Tobe > If I recall right the user mentioned some security concerns, But perhaps your right the user does not have enough valid information for a security concern. How do we make the destinction in the future? Do you have some suggestions? Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message