On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:02:38AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> It might be helpful to post the EXACT error messages. I doubt if I'm able
> to help, but it seems to me that posting without them may be one of those
> people-may-tend-to-ignore-your-message mistakes.
Good point, thank you.
One of the message in the log file regards init:
Jan 2 09:00:38 brego dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.253 to 00:a0:c9:68:03:05 via
eth0
Jan 2 09:01:07 brego init: Trying to re-exec init
Jan 2 09:01:08 brego locale-gen: Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs
to 1
Jan 2 09:10:01 brego cron[7189]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons )
So the only thing near it is locale-gen, which doesn't appear in any
cron or logrotate scripts.
The other error is from DHCP:
Jan 2 07:16:47 brego crontab[26016]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server
V3.1.1-Gentoo
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Usage: dhcpd [-p <UDP port #>] [-d] [-f]
[-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file] [-user user] [-group
group] [-chroot dir] [-tf trace-output-file]
[-play trace-input-file] [-t] [-T] [-s server] [if0
[...ifN]]
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd:
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org,
please
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that
before
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: requesting help.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd:
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and
have not
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before
requesting help.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the
dhcp-ser...@isc.org
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on the
README about
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd:
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send
requests for
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this software -
please
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list as
described in
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: the README file.
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd:
Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: exiting.
Jan 2 07:20:01 brego cron[7644]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons )
And there is nothing right before or after that which seem suspicious.
> Stroller.
>
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2009, at 02:29, Michael George wrote:
>
>> That seems to be a poor subject for my question, so I reposted with
>> something more descriptive...
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
>>> About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as
>>> reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. ...
>>>
>>> One of the entries is a Usage: message from dhcp, as though something
>>> tried to restart the DHCP server.
>>>
>>> The other is "Re-execs of init: 1 times". I found some references to
>>> this on the 'net, but generally when discussing prelink. I don't have
>>> prelink installed, though.
>>> ...
>
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-M
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