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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:31:48 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        gerti-freebsds@bitart.com
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random signal 9 (SIGKILL), please help!
Message-ID:  <20000329143148.A25616@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20000329102024.3950.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:20:24AM -0600
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:20:24AM -0600, Gerd Knops wrote:

> I think I found a correlation between pid roll over (from 99999
> to 0) and the spurious signals. Some program seems to keep
> taps on pids that already went away, and when they 'come back' they
> are killed again. I am suspicious of syslogd at the moment (I pipe
> syslog output through a filter), one of the very few programs in the
> base system that are running on those systems and that uses SIGKILL.

You could try doing:

	ktrace -t s -p $pid

on syslogd and then checking to see if the signals it sends corrisponds
to the SIGKILL your processes get. (Providing you have times for them).

	David.


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