whiteley@nadc.arpa (D. Whiteley) (07/10/89)
>From: metaware!riscy!adam@ucscc.ucsc.edu (Adam Margulies) > >syslog seems to like to take over a system from time to time and >eat 80% of the cpu time. It writes nothing to /usr/adm/messages >so I can't tell if it is doing it for good REASON or anything. >how can i free myself from it, other than turning it off all together? If you're running SunOS 4.0, in the READ THIS FIRST document that came with the manuals, there's a paragraph about what to do to fix this problem. It says: The symbol LOGHOST is not correctly defind by syslogd on loghost machines. This results in 100% CPU usage and syslogd accumulating large amounts of CPU time. To prevent this problem insert the following line at the beginning of the /etc/syslog.conf on loghost machines: define(LOGHOST, 1) Hope this helps, Denice whiteley@nadc.arpa