From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 03:55:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F9716A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:55:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@aebc.com) Received: from imail.aebc.com (dns1.aebc.com [209.53.200.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBD243D46 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:55:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@aebc.com) Received: from aebc.com [209.139.247.233] by imail.aebc.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.15) id A1685C010E; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:56:24 -0700 Received: from chris [209.53.197.59] by aebc.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.15) id AD54A7101B0; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:32:52 -0700 From: "Chris St Denis" To: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:31:47 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcWo2hYJDfi5DhZQT2WjjcekXZ6J+g== Message-Id: <20050824113200.SM00756@chris> X-RBL-Warning: NOPOSTMASTER: "Not supporting postmaster@aebc.com" X-RBL-Warning: IPNOTINMX: X-RBL-Warning: NOLEGITCONTENT: No content unique to legitimate E-mail detected. X-RBL-Warning: SPAMHEADERS: This E-mail has headers consistent with spam [4000020e]. X-RBL-Warning: CMDSPACE: Space found in RCPT TO: command. X-Declude-Sender: chris@aebc.com [209.53.197.59] X-Declude-Spoolname: Dbd540a7101b0ba93.SMD X-Note: Email was scanned by AE's anti-spam system in MX2 server. X-Note: This E-mail was sent from zz197059.cipherkey.net ([209.53.197.59]). X-Note: Total spam weight of this E-mail is 6. X-Spam-Tests-Failed: NOPOSTMASTER [1], IPNOTINMX [0], NOLEGITCONTENT [0], SPAMHEADERS [0], CMDSPACE [5] Subject: Corrupt entries in /var/log/messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:55:56 -0000 Occasionally I get entries like this in my log. It looks like more than one process is logging at the same time. Shouldn't syslogd be thread/SMP/concurrency safe from this kind of thing? Aug 24 05:29:44 sakura kernel: <<66>>ppiidd 119942486 9( (hthttptdpd)),, uiudi d 808:0 :e xeixtietde do no ns isginganla l 1111 In an unrelated note, I'm getting a few " *** POKED TIMER ***" messages in the syslog from named, anyone know what this is? I found a few questions about in the archive, but no answers (telling somebody to search the archive isn't any good when that's the only answer found)