From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 11:19:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29469 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14502; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:18:04 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA44928; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:28:04 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199812080828.IAA44928@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Josh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP error. Duping modem fd -1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Dec 1998 11:08:56 +1100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 08:28:04 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi. > We have a 2.2.1-release machine with ppp-980630 compiled on it. > It has all been working OK for about a year but yesterday the > disk was at 103% and syslogd was taking over 25% of the cpu. > > So we moved the file off that partition and after a manual > fsck (Hmmm) we got the space back. The big question is > what caused the problem and can we stop it from happening > again :-) The file was full of "Duping modem fd -1". > > I had a look but I couldnt see anything so I thought one of > you may know more. Here is a bit of the log, if you want more > please ask. > > ppp.log > -------------------------------------------------------- > > 12-07 14:20:13 [3151] Listening at 3001. > 12-07 14:20:13 [3151] PPP Started. [.....] > Duping modem fd -1 > > +(literally) million more lines like the last. > -------------------------------------------------------- This log wasn't produced by ppp-980630. Ppp hasn't produced this sort of log since FreeBSD-2.2.2 (the version that shipped with 2.2.5 used syslog() for the first time). > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Josh > Date: 08-Dec-98 > Time: 11:08:56 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message