Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 08:28:04 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP error. Duping modem fd -1 Message-ID: <199812080828.IAA44928@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Dec 1998 11:08:56 %2B1100." <XFMail.981208113143.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>
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> Hi.
> We have a 2.2.1-release machine with ppp-980630 compiled on it.
> It has all been working OK for about a year but yesterday the
> disk was at 103% and syslogd was taking over 25% of the cpu.
>
> So we moved the file off that partition and after a manual
> fsck (Hmmm) we got the space back. The big question is
> what caused the problem and can we stop it from happening
> again :-) The file was full of "Duping modem fd -1".
>
> I had a look but I couldnt see anything so I thought one of
> you may know more. Here is a bit of the log, if you want more
> please ask.
>
> ppp.log
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> 12-07 14:20:13 [3151] Listening at 3001.
> 12-07 14:20:13 [3151] PPP Started.
[.....]
> Duping modem fd -1
>
> +(literally) million more lines like the last.
> --------------------------------------------------------
This log wasn't produced by ppp-980630. Ppp hasn't produced this
sort of log since FreeBSD-2.2.2 (the version that shipped with 2.2.5
used syslog() for the first time).
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>
> Date: 08-Dec-98
> Time: 11:08:56
>
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