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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:37:05 +0000
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Tony Byrne <tony@nua.ie>
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Subject: Re: syslogd throwing a hissy fit
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:43:59PM +0000, Tony Byrne wrote:

> My investigations using "syslogd -v" show that the all of the looped and
> corrupt log lines that I am seeing are of the LOG_CONSOLE facility with
> the 'info' priority.  (console.info) (14.6)
> 
> It's my guess that syslogd is entering a tight loop whenever syslog.conf
> is configured so that a log message with facility LOG_CONSOLE is
> directed to /dev/console.  The committer seems to have been aware of the
> problem, but maybe an incorrectly configured syslog.conf would
> circumvent the checks within the code?

There should be code to prevent this looping, as you point out.
Can you send me the output of syslogd -d while it's looping and
I'll try to figure out what is going on.

	David.


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