Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!mdixon From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: death by syslogd Message-ID: Date: 2 Mar 90 01:12:23 GMT Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 8 twice now i've discovered my machine running out of process slots because dozens of syslogd processes had been spawned. has anyone else seen this? any idea what could cause it? there was nothing suspicious in the console log (except multiple warnings once it ran out of process slots...) -- .mike.