Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 May 1996 08:50:55 +1200 (NZST) | From | Oliver Jowett <> | Subject | Re: Odd root (and suid root) behavior |
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: > > > > Steven N. Hirsch: > > > As of (at least) 1.99.2, an initial root login (or su root) after > > > system startup hangs for almost a minute on a 486DX4-100 machine. Once > > > logged in, though, everything procedes normally! > > > > Hi, > > > > I noticed this too, and I think I tracked it down - it seems to hang > > in syslog() (root logins are logged). Perhaps the large number of
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> > Any ideas how to fix it? > > I'll second that one :-)).
Try sysklogd 1.3. I ran into a very similar problem when running diald: chat would open syslog but not write to it for some time. There was a little bug in syslogd 1.2 where when a new connection is accepted, a read is immediately done on it (which will block for a while). Of course, anything else writing to syslog will then block until the read times out (? - it's been a while :). sysklogd 1.3 works beautifully for me.
Oliver -- "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
-- Bjarne Stroustrup on C++
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