From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 09:59:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01477 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01426 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id HAA08320 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 07:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA24437; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:45:23 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA23819; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:45:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id PAA11722; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:52:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611241452.PAA11722@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: syslogd error on /dev/console To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:52:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611240140.CAA00825@xp11.frmug.org> from Philippe Charnier at "Nov 24, 96 02:40:35 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Charnier wrote: > xp11 [84] ~ % tail /var/log/messages > Nov 24 02:15:03 xp11 lpd[121]: restarted > Nov 24 02:15:42 xp11 syslogd: /dev/console: Input/output error > Nov 24 02:15:42 xp11 su: charnier to root on /dev/ttyp1 Smells like a problem with console multiplexing. Bruce, do you see anything obvious? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)