On Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:47:29 AM +1300 Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these appear on your system every couple of days right? if so... are > you able to run with the fs mount notails for a couple of days and > see if you still experience these? > > my guess is you probably still will as most log files aren't > candidates for tail-packing (too large) but it will help eliminate > one more thing.... > Yes, it really would. 1) mount -o notail 2) rm old_logfile 3) restart syslog This will ensure the log files don't have tails at all. Knowing for sure the bug doesn't involve tails would remove much code from the search. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/