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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!news
- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: strange console messages
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.044344.5287@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1992Jul30.151607.27844@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:43:44 GMT
- Lines: 53
-
- In article <1992Jul30.151607.27844@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) writes:
- >At boot time, I'm getting some strange error/warning messages on my console,
- >such as
- >
- > Check-in service NetMessage
- > Check-in port 13 for NetMessage
- > Registering new service C library lookup
- > Registering new port 102 for C library lookup
-
- Those come from mach_init
-
- > Server midi linking /usr/lib/kernloader/Midi/midi_reloc against /mach
- > Server midi loading executable "/mach" for linage base file
-
- Those come from kern_loader
-
- [Half of those messages you didn't transcribe accurately!
- Please, if you're including stuff like error messages in problem
- reports, having the *exact* text is most helpful.]
-
- >I get this stuff about the time when /etc/rc is loading biod and ntpd. Also,
- >in /tmp/console.log I get stuff like
- >
- > Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: bootstrap_subset new bootstrap
- >839 unpriv 840
- > Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registered new service
- >MailFetch_port
- > Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registering port 841 for
- >service MailFetch_port
-
- More mach_init stuff.
-
- >None of these things seems to have had horrible consequences
-
- They're perfectly normal--however, most users never see them
- because nearly all are syslogged as daemon.info and NeXT's
- standard /etc/syslog.conf discards anything below daemon.notice.
- [N.B. since you didn't mention which OS version you have, so I'm
- answering this for 2.1.]
-
- > though
- >occasionally my machine seems to have trouble associating IP addresses with
- >machine names.
-
- Completely unrelated.
-
- You'll have to furnish more information about your setup; there
- isn't enough to go on (are you running a nameserver locally or
- using someone else's? Are you on the far end of a SLIP/CSLIP/PPP
- link? etc.).
-
- -=EPS=-
-