On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:54:29 +0100, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote:
>What about cron/at jobs? Or some other tasks running which would run so me >grep calls? > >In the meantime, I double checked ... > > $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/default/retrans_time > $ awk '{print $0}' < /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/default/retrans_time > $ dmesg | tail -n2 > process `cat' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead. > process `awk' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead. > >So, as you see ... now the kernel complains about 'cat' and 'awk' access ing >the deprecated syscall. I feel very confident you had something which >did run grep again that file inside /proc/sys/net/ipv6.... So you need t o >check against /var/log/messages to see if you can find out what else >happened at the time when this log line was logged. Thanks for taking the trouble. No cron or at jobs and the only entry in the logs at a nearby time was the "new usb device" one, so I guess it was probably connected with that. Stephen Isard