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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 05:23:31 +0200
From: Barry Irwin <bvi@itouchlabs.com>
To: Glen Hollings <GHollings@admin.gil.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Broken SU
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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.
> 
> 
> 
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