Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:21:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange kernel log message Message-ID: <20071126112106.GC2283@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20071126095833.GA6422@submonkey.net> References: <20071126095833.GA6422@submonkey.net>
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On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> So I have this in my security run output:
> kernel log messages:
> +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kF Sun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007
> +<<<<222>2>>>NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ffffff
> +
> +
> +f
>
> WTF now?
>
> I'm not sure if that's a real kernel message that got garbled or whether
> I should be worried about naughtiness.
It looks like multiple messages overlapping each other. Removing 3
characters every 4 bytes in the output produces things which seem
vaguely recognizable:
<22NNI II A ,,,EISA fff
<<2>NMI SS 300 ISAAfff
There's a sysctl option which you can tweak to make this less likely to
happen, but I am not sure about its name. Our console gurus can help
you track it down and tune its value :)
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