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From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:56:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126205650.GA1028742@hiwaay.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311261202050.1524@home.osdl.org>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-26 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 17:12 Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:15   ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:30     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:43       ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:50         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-26 20:07             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:41               ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:40             ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:56             ` Chris Adams [this message]
2003-11-26 21:34             ` Diego Calleja García
2003-11-27  8:41             ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-27 10:05               ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 13:39                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-27 17:16                   ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 17:55                     ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 18:04                       ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-29 17:14                   ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-01 18:43                     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02  2:41                       ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-07 11:56                         ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2003-12-07 13:53                           ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:23           ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:32             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:47               ` Gene Heskett

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