Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test6 -- Huh??? | Date | 1 Oct 2003 21:21:45 GMT |
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In article <3F79E7EE.80808@coyotegulch.com>, Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> wrote: | I freely admit to being something of a neophyte when it comes to the | internal details of the Linux kernel. I've been successfully running | development and test kernels since 2.5.40 or so, and I've never before | seen anything like the following: | | Message from syslogd@Tycho at Tue Sep 30 16:09:01 2003 ... | Tycho vmunix: ris/b/la/up.us0:rr - rdi ptests | | Message from syslogd@Tycho at Tue Sep 30 16:09:01 2003 ... | Tycho vmunix: dreruscls/blc:bl: ro-1eangriertas | | Message from syslogd@Tycho at Tue Sep 30 16:09:01 2003 ... | Tycho vmunix: ris//cs/lp: lper -rengin sus>dersbasus.csb: or9 | diprerat<3iv/u/cs/lp up0rr-1eag ntsts | | Message from syslogd@Tycho at Tue Sep 30 16:09:01 2003 ... | Tycho vmunix: ris//cs/lp up0rr -rengin sus>dersbassbc:bl: or9 | diprerat<3iv/ucl/up. up0rr-1eag ntsts | | The above messages appeared in a root terminal running from Gnome, while | I was outside replacing fuses in my truck. Given that my truck is not | yet running Linux or connected to my network (give me time...), I'm at a | loss as to what caused the above, and what it means. | | Polite illumination will be most graciously appreciated.
The lines are caused by a message such as is sent by the 'write' command, I suspect something on your system might have an unhappy script which is abusing that command or using the same mechanism to send you this information. I think the sender is telling you "I am so confused" at this point. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/
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