Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:56:50 -0600 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: amanda vs 2.6 |
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Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: >And syslogd is stopped for some reason - either a bug, a mistaken SIGSTOP, >or simply because the console has been stopped with a simple ^S.
It can also happen if there is a problem with DNS; syslogd tries to do a DNS lookup to get the hostname to put in the record and can hang on that if the DNS server is busy, hung, down, unreachable, etc.
_Really_ annoying when you are trying to log in to the DNS server to fix a problem with DNS! -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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