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> >
> >this is from my /tmp/syslog.log file....
> >
> >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

i got the chance to dig a bit into this finally.....  at 3:53 this morning, the
network was stopped on this machine -- without the benefit of stopping all the
background (read 'network dependent') jobs first <sigh>  so 'host is down' means
*host* me, myself, i :-)  stopping and restarting syslog cleared up the
problem.        - d

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Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
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