Kernel about to crash?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 22), Steve Warwick said:
> My daily security run is starting to show pieces of the kernel config
> file it's kernel log messages - when this happens the OS starts to
> use up more and more swap space too. Last time this happened I let it
> go and the server went down so I have been rebooting if I see this
> happening and avoid the crash. It seems to take about 25-30 days for
> this to occur.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> 
> -- excerpts from security run output ---
> 
> la.servername.com kernel log messages:
> > initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to
> accept,
> logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default
> 
> 
> la.servername.com kernel log messages:
> > rom ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

All that means is your dmesg buffer is rolling over.  It doesn't affect
the rest of the system.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com