Re: tail -f /var/adm/messages

[Johann Spies <jhspies@ilink.nis.za>]

Thank you for your reaction.
Heiko wrote:
>What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say?

I found the following sequence of lines:

---------------------------------------------------------
Nov  4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Nov  4 09:15:24 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
Nov  4 09:15:25 Johann kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov  4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
Nov  4 09:15:25 Johann syslogd: select: Bad file number
Nov  4 09:15:56 Johann last message repeated 20827 times
Nov  4 09:16:57 Johann last message repeated 47428 times
Nov  4 09:17:58 Johann last message repeated 46865 times
-----------------------------------------------------------
 
and I do not know what it means and how to fix it.

Can somebody help please?


Johann.

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