Re: sysklogd breaks noflushd

2000-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: > This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the > sources in woody. > Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning > down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh. > Now, I've prefixed all the filenames in /etc/syslog.conf with > "-", like

Re: sysklogd & /dev/log

1999-06-15 Thread kerkhoff
Thanks for reply, Joey. Both daemons seem to start fine, but do not seem to be logging anything. 'plog' returns nothing, probably because ppp.log is empty. Okay, /dev/log is a socket, but do you have any idea why it is not being created? -rw-r- 1 root adm 0 Jun 13 06:48 a

Re: sysklogd

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
As far as I know, this is "normal" behavior. There was apparently some sort of BadThing (TM) that occurred if syslogd did not pause on startup. I suppose if you reboot a lot it gets annoying ... At any rate I just hunted through the source code ... I found a flag KLOGD_START_DELAY in the Makefile

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
Victor Torrico wrote: > > Alex Romosan wrote: > > > > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. > > > > --alex-- > > > > You hit the nai

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Alex Romosan wrote: > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. Along these lines, does anybody know why syslogd in pack

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
Alex Romosan wrote: > > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. > > --alex-- > You hit the nail on the head and fixed my problem. I was

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the min

Re: sysklogd 1.3-13

1997-02-20 Thread James LewisMoss
> "Mikael" == Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mikael> Hi! Why is it that the new sysklogd in 'unstable' dependens Mikael> on an old bash and not on the new one? Mikael> Is there any packages that dependes on bash 2.0-2 or is it Mikael> just to downgrade it to the one in secti

Re: sysklogd problems

1996-06-13 Thread Richard Lovison
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > I just discovered that my system logging utilities stopped functioning two > days ago after I did some upgrades. I attempted to reinstall sysklogd > 1.3-6 but received the following error message: > > warning: /etc/init.d/sysklogd doesn't exist duri

Re: sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Richard Lovison writes ("sysklogd upgrade"): > I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using > dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were > in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. > I proceeded to purge sys

Re: sysklogd problem

1996-05-24 Thread K J MacDonald
Both of your problems are caused by the named pipe /dev/xconsole filling up, which is a known problem. I get the same behaviour here on my machine. I suspect named pauses for so long because it has a relatively large amount of logging to report, and hence is most likely to be the process which ca