Re: 2.6.0-test6 -- Huh???

[bill davidsen]

In article <3F79E7EE.80808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Scott Robert Ladd  <coyote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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