In article <[log in to unmask]>,
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>this is from my /tmp/syslog.log file....
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>Jan 27 03:53:09 ixd syslogd: recvfrom inet: Host is down
>Jan 27 03:53:18 ixd syslogd: recvfrom inet: Host is down
>Jan 27 03:53:18 ixd syslogd: select: Bad file number
>Jan 27 03:53:49 ixd last message repeated 99087 times
>Jan 27 03:55:50 ixd last message repeated 384555 times
>Jan 27 04:05:51 ixd last message repeated 1794807 times
>Jan 27 04:15:52 ixd last message repeated 885170 times
>Jan 27 04:25:53 ixd last message repeated 410931 times
>Jan 27 04:35:54 ixd last message repeated 1452310 times
>Jan 27 04:45:55 ixd last message repeated 1725128 times
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>now, the 'last message repeated' message is repeated over
>and over and....  is simply halting the job sufficient to
>straighten this out?  also, what does 'host is down' mean,
>exactly?  i want to say who is syslog talking to...of
>course, none of you could really answer my question :-)  so
>i'll say *where* do i check....what am i looking for...to
>find out?                - d
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>Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
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Donna,
I am not sure about "host is down", probably means your syslog is trying to
forward messages to a host where syslogd is NOT running.

As to the message repeated message (is that redundant?), syslog discards any
message that is a duplicate of the last message it processed. What this
suggests is that you are getting many occurences of the same message. Syslog
will only process the first one. Stopping the job will cause the next message
to be processed, but if the next one after that is a duplicate of the first,
you can back in this problem.

For whatever reason, syslog thinks repeated messages are not interesting and
discards them.
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