Hi Johann -- You said: > Heiko wrote: > >What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say? > > I found the following sequence of lines: > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Nov 4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > Nov 4 09:15:24 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. > Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. > Nov 4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd: select: Bad file number > Nov 4 09:15:56 Johann last message repeated 20827 times > Nov 4 09:16:57 Johann last message repeated 47428 times > Nov 4 09:17:58 Johann last message repeated 46865 times > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > and I do not know what it means and how to fix it. > > Can somebody help please?
I don't know the answer exactly, except that syslog.conf has a set of rules, which involve "selector fields". I suspect there's a typo in one of your lines in /etc/syslog.conf. You can read more about it by executing man 5 syslog.conf Alternatively, you might want extract the syslog.conf file from a sysklog package, and compare that with your own, using some variant of dpkg-deb -x. HTH, Susan Kleinmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
