Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:40:12 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root Message-ID: <200112301340.aa84281@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 08:28:11 EST." <20011230082811.A98988@palomine.net>
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> > Can you run top and find the syslogd line and see what state it is in? > It looks like this: > $ top 100 | grep syslog > 190 root 4 0 932K 556K ttywai 0:02 0.00% 0.00% syslogd It's definitely waiting for some tty - probably the console if you are using the default syslog.conf file. Are you running xconsole on this machine? I can't think of an easy way to fix the problem - killing and restarting syslogd might fix it, but there is a possibility the console will still block when syslogd is restarted... David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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