> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bob Staaf wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> >
> >      The Kudzu service is running but, I haven't restarted the server or
> > done anything with it since last night and those messages are from 3
hours
> > ago.  I was under the impression Kudzu only checks for new hardware on
> > startup or I guess unless you invoke it?
>

On Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:25 PM Bill Crawford Replied

>  I was just trying to suggest things that might try to load modules;
> I've seen console messages like these with older versions of kudzu.
>
>  The most plausible explanation I can see is that some process is
> trying to read files in /dev/, such as some kind of backup, or maybe
> a misconfigured tripwire or other tool.  Each time a /dev/xxx file
> is opened for a non-existent device, the kernel calls /sbin/modprobe
> with {block,char}-major-XX to see if it can handle the device.
>
>  Do you have any cron jobs running at that time, or has anyone run
> a manual process that might have opened those device files?
>

Bill,

     Its a fresh install of RHL 7.2.  I did a custom install with minimal
partitions and chose the web server package group.  There are no users other
than me and no one was running anything at the time.

Bob



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