On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:20:58 +0100, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote:
>On 23/02/13 19:08, Stephen Isard wrote: >> A strange item turned up in my logs yesterday: >> >> kernel: process `grep' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) >> net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use >> net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_t ime_ms instead. <snip> >I managed to trigger this one on a Fedora installation too. I guess >someone did grep for something inside /proc ... > > $ grep 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/default/retrans_time > $ dmesg | tail -n1 > [61022.270399] process `grep' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead. > >It's not caused by 'grep' itself, but as 'grep' was looking at a sysctl >parameter which is now deprecated - this triggered the warning you saw. Hmm. There was no other user on the machine at the time (I hope! No tra ce of one in the logs anyway) and I certainly didn't look at that /proc fil e myself from the command line. I guess it's possible that the spurious us b event somehow led to a grep call. Thanks. Stephen Isard
