Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264343AbTKZU4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:56:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264348AbTKZU4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:56:54 -0500 Received: from bee.hiwaay.net ([216.180.54.11]:59584 "EHLO mail.hiwaay.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264343AbTKZU4w (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:56:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:56:50 -0600 From: Chris Adams To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6 Message-ID: <20031126205650.GA1028742@hiwaay.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 19 Once upon a time, Linus Torvalds 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 Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/