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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: preposterous process id
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, George Vagner wrote:

> here is another message i am getting, and my ppp.log files are not
> being logged. I think this has something to do with it.
> anyone know how to fix this.
> 
> Message 16/16 Cron Daemon                          Jan 20, 98 09:00:02 am -0600
> 
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:00:02 -0600 (CST)
> To: root
> Subject: Cron <root@mutsgo> /usr/sbin/newsyslog
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> 
> newsyslog: preposterous process number: 0

Odd.  Try running newsyslog with the -v option and see if that gives you
any more insight.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major