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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:10:02 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: why does dmesg.boot get overwritten?
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On 2002-04-08 19:56, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Hello all,
> I wonder why after a day or two uptime my /var/run/dmesg.boot gets
> completely overwritten by various messages, mostly generated by
> log_in_vain (eg Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 
> 127.0.0.1:1654) but also a few others. I thought dmesg.boot is there
> to preserve the messages output at boot time? 

You didn't by any chance use `init 1' to break down to single user and
`exit' to return to multiuser, right?

/me tongue in cheek :)

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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