> > 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.
Boy, responses on this list are quick these days :). I think I found what caused it: I recently purged inn from the system. In the /etc/syslog.conf file there were lines about files that weren't there anymore: # Logging for INN news system # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.err /var/log/news/news.err news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice After commenting the lines with news.* out, syslogd became its quiet self again. Now, isn't the postrm script from the inn package supposed to clean this up? Iow, is this a bug that I should report? 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] .
