Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:15:56 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su root hangs when logged in via SSH Message-ID: <3A37E70C.3A935224@telehouse.ch> References: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213153948.01fc9df0@marble.sentex.ca>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Yeah, I had a similar problem to this in the past where syslogd was kind of > hung, and the su was blocking waiting for I guess syslog to return. If you > can login as root on the console, kill syslogd, restart it and see if su > works once again. Nope, it does not work again. But after a couple of seconds after restarting syslogd I've got this messages on the console: "syslogd: timed out waiting for child" Another note, syslogd does not go with a normal kill, it needs a kill -9 to make it into heaven. Could this be related to having a serial console? -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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