On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:58:41PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :) > > The kernel option I've seen mentioned before to at least make this less > common is: > > options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 # Prevent printf output being interspersed.
Aha, thanks guys.
Ceri
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