On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Michael George <geo...@mutualdata.com> wrote: > 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. >>>> ... >> > > -- > -M > > There are 10 kinds of people in this world: > Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. > > >
Regarding the dhcp error, it looks to me like there's a cron to try and do something with dhcpd - most likely with broken syntax. Check your crontabs...
