On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > > > Well, I alomost have a perfect Debian 1.2 system on my Thinkpad 365XD... > > > > Now I am down to only two problems - both of them I have seen mentioned > > here, > > but I do not remember if I have seen the solutions. > > > > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing > > in /var/log/messages' Is there a way to get syslogd to work correctly? > > It is probably of interest to see what that last message was. I is most > likely that process that is overloading syslogd. I had the same problem, syslogd was taking 97-98% of CPU time, because of some bad file number error messages... I corrected it by commenting out 3 lines in /etc/syslogd.conf starting with news... probably the directory /var/log/news wasnt created and syslogd tried to write to it... Greg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]