dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks) (11/10/89)
In article <110@cupcake.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: >We have a MicroVax running Ultrix, and the /etc/syslog process seems to >be locked in some kind of deadly embrace... it is building up CPU time >as if it is CPU bound. ps(1) shows accumulated times like 675.23, and >shows the time to be increasing at nearly real time. I had exactly the same thing happen on a pmax. I fixed it, but I forget exactly how now...damn. But I remember creating a directory, and I think it was /usr/spool/mqueue (which is referenced in /etc/syslog.conf). Try that. You might even touch the file syslog. -- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks 11 Cambridge Center Personal views, not necessarily those Cambridge, MA 02142, USA of OSF, its sponsors or members.
mikulska@odin.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska) (11/16/89)
In article <3531@chorus.fr> rd@chorus.fr (Roland Dirlewanger) writes: > >In article <110@cupcake.sal.wisc.edu>, jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: > >> We have a MicroVax running Ultrix, and the /etc/syslog process seems to >> be locked in some kind of deadly embrace... it is building up CPU time >> as if it is CPU bound. ps(1) shows accumulated times like 675.23, and >> shows the time to be increasing at nearly real time. > >I've already seen this on SunOs a 4.0 system. > >The very same problem appears if the syslog server for a host is itself. ... >Check your /etc/syslog.conf for lines such as : > > something.level @loghost > foo.bar @localhost Under SunOS 4.0, this is a bug: LOGHOST is not correctly defined by syslogd on loghost machines. The workaround consists indeed of correcting /etc/syslog.conf on loghost machines: you should add the following line: define(LOGHOST, 1) as the _first_ line of this file. It works, I know from my own experience on some Sun-4's that really did almost nothing but ran syslogd. Margaret Mikulska Univ. of Calif., San Diego Inst. for Nonlinear Science mem@inls1.ucsd.edu ucsd!inls1!mem