Hi, Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to /var/log/messages like
Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times Nov 12 11:13:37 pebbles last message repeated 465160 times Nov 12 11:14:38 pebbles last message repeated 470270 times Nov 12 11:15:39 pebbles last message repeated 468368 times Nov 12 11:16:40 pebbles last message repeated 466648 times Nov 12 11:17:41 pebbles last message repeated 465624 times Nov 12 11:18:42 pebbles last message repeated 461256 times Nov 12 11:19:43 pebbles last message repeated 462968 times Nov 12 11:20:44 pebbles last message repeated 468731 times Nov 12 11:21:45 pebbles last message repeated 461928 times How do I go about to find out what select call from what process is causing this? Or is it syslogd itself looking at some corrupted file? Restarting syslogd or rebooting the machine doesn't help. Thanks in advance, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

