[newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started manually), and it

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:12 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:12 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being displayed on the

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:50:12 -0500 Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ? question, can you confirm that any of the messages being

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It actualy sounds like the daemons are not running. As root, run service syslog status and make sure both syslogd and klogd are running. If they both report that they are running, then chack /etc/syslog.conf - there should be only one entry that uses *, tty, tty0, or

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It actualy sounds like the daemons are not running. As root, run service syslog status and make sure both syslogd and klogd are running. If they both report that they are running, then chack /etc/syslog.conf - there should be only one entry that uses

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You should not be getting the error. You may want to run rpm -V syslogd and see what errors it reports. You may also want to run a package like chkrootkit to make sure your box wasn't hacked. A look at the log files is also in order. The /etc/syslog.conf file got

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: You should not be getting the error. You may want to run rpm -V syslogd and see what errors it reports. You may also want to run a package like chkrootkit to make sure your box wasn't hacked. A look at the log files is also in order. The

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I forgot to put in the last message - the changes you make in /etc/syslog.conf will not take affect untill you restart syslog. Normaly, I would run service syslog restart to do this. But you may have to fix what ever is wrong in /etc/sysconfig/syslog first.

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I forgot to put in the last message - the changes you make in /etc/syslog.conf will not take affect untill you restart syslog. Normaly, I would run service syslog restart to do this. But you may have to fix what ever is wrong in

Re: [newbie] Syslogd

2005-03-12 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One thing I forgot to put in the last message - the changes you make in /etc/syslog.conf will not take affect untill you restart syslog. Normaly, I would run service syslog restart to do this. But you may have to fix what

Re: [newbie] syslogd

2002-12-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 07:28, George Baker wrote: Last night a process called syslogd -m started and my hard drive went mad for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how often - will it always carry on for so long or was

[newbie] syslogd

2002-12-12 Thread George Baker
Last night a process called syslogd -m started and my hard drive went mad for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to me moving MDK to a new drive?? Please advise George Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] syslogd

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 07:28, George Baker wrote: Last night a process called syslogd -m started and my hard drive went mad for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to me moving MDK to a new