Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 08:28:04 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP error. Duping modem fd -1 Message-ID: <199812080828.IAA44928@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Dec 1998 11:08:56 %2B1100." <XFMail.981208113143.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>
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> 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 <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au> > Date: 08-Dec-98 > Time: 11:08:56 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> 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
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