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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/messages overflows
Message-ID: <83509@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 7 Sep 89 05:54:42 GMT
References: <2521@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <2521@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>In a normal BSD kernel, repeated kernel messages (such as 'disk out of
>space') are not printed verbatim; instead, just a count of repeated
>identical messages is printed for each set.

That's a feature of the 4.3BSD syslogd(8), not the kernel. Since Dynix uses
the 4.2BSD syslog, you can't get "repeat counting" even if you didn't also
have the problem of the CPU number being printed out.

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