Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 05:23:31 +0200 From: Barry Irwin <bvi@itouchlabs.com> To: Glen Hollings <GHollings@admin.gil.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken SU Message-ID: <20010903052331.B54124@itouchlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <B9C04FEB4B4EA74696488AE05045588728D285@postal.admin.gil.com.au>; from GHollings@admin.gil.com.au on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:25:18AM %2B1000 References: <B9C04FEB4B4EA74696488AE05045588728D285@postal.admin.gil.com.au>
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Hi all THis isnt only on serial consoles. I had this happen on a 4.0 and 4.1 box. Same symptoms. su hanging. A kill adn restart of syslog fixed the problem. strangely enough syslog appeared to be logging other messages. Barry On Mon 2001-09-03 (09:25), Glen Hollings wrote: > Thanks to all those that reponded! > > In no particular order. > > Brian Reichert > F. Even > fAsTy > Konstantin Stepanenkov > Tony McCrory > 'Don' > Mark Murray > Troy Bell > > Thanks for all your help > > > > The problem ended up being with Syslog, for some reason Syslog to a serial > console can do some weird things sometimes. > > I commented out the line > > #*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > > HUP'd Syslog and off it went! > > (Well with a little bit of playing :) ) > > Thanks to Brian Reichert for this. > > > > ********************************************** > *Glen Hollings | There Cant Be * > *Network Administrator | a Crisis Today,* > *Global Info Links | my schedule is * > *ghollings@admin.gil.com.au | already full. * > ********************************************** > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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