cvs commit: src/etc syslog.conf

[Doug White]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, [iso-8859-1] Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> writes:
> > Yes, a good plan. btw, syslogd does some ratelimiting itself. However, =
when
> > system is low on kernel memory, new valid ARP entries fail to install
> > with _two_ debug messages. Since two different messages are printed one
> > after other, syslogd's limiting does not work. Example:
> >
> > Feb  2 09:00:01 <kern.debug> gw-core1 /kernel: arplookup 217.72.145.208=
 failed:
> > could not allocate llinfo
> > Feb  2 09:00:01 <kern.debug> gw-core1 /kernel: arpresolve: can't alloca=
te llinfo
> >  for 217.72.145.208rt
>
> The second message can simply be removed, since (from my quick reading
> of the code) it can only occur if the first has already occurred.

Are you sure? The second was the telltale that you have broken Linux
boxes on your network. :-)

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