Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:35:41 -0500 (EST) From: Brian McDonald <brian@lustygrapes.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root Message-ID: <20011230113124.O2732-100000@nivomede.internal.lustygrapes.net> In-Reply-To: <200112301340.aa84281@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, David Malone wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:40:12 +0000 > From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> > To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> > Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root [snip] > I can't think of an easy way to fix the problem - killing and > restarting syslogd might fix it, but there is a possibility the > console will still block when syslogd is restarted... As mentioned in another post, I've seen these problems as well. After I killed and restarted syslogd, some ttys were indeed locked up: root 61092 0.0 0.4 924 536 v3- IEs+ 21Apr01 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 root 53250 0.0 0.4 924 540 v1- IEs+ 14Jul01 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 Brian -- Brian McDonald, MCP Klein bottle for sale. Inquire within. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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