Basically, the system's being lazy with the log. In some cases this can
almost be seen as a good thing. It means your don't have much writing
to the log.
All you need to do is find the what it's repeating. It should be last
line written ABOVE all of those things. Here's an example from my log.
Apr 16 02:47:32 localhost snort[29743]: [1:477:1] ICMP Source Quench
[Classification: Potentially Bad Traffic] [Priority: 2]: {ICMP}
Apr 16 02:49:04 r2d2 last message repeated 7 times
So it repeated the line from snort 7 times before something interrupted
what it was doing, then made it print again.
All you have to do is find out what's above all of those. Try this
command, it may give you the line that it's repeating.
grep -B 5 repeated /var/log/messages
So it finds every line that has repeated in it, then prints the 5 lines
BEFORE it as well. Check the man page for grep for more options. If
you don't get anything printed with the above command, change the 5 to a
10.
Hope that helps.
tdh
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|
| hi..
|
| i've just noticed a funny thing on my machine.. i switched
| to tty12 to look at the messages being displayed there
| and saw something like this:
|
| Apr 18 15:11:15 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:12:17 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:13:19 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:14:21 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:15:23 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:16:25 localhost last message repeated 2 times
| Apr 18 15:17:27 localhost last message repeated 2 times
|
| all over the screen, every exactly 1 minute 2 seconds. i have no clue about
| this.. i've shut down every program except for my wm ( fluxbox ) and sylpheed.
| does anyone know what his means? it's the first time i get this...
|
| thanks.
|
| Damian
|
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