> these appear on your system every couple of days right? if so... are
> you able to run with the fs mount notails for a couple of days and
> see if you still experience these?
>
> my guess is you probably still will as most log files aren't
> candidates for tail-packing (too large) but it will help eliminate
> one more thing....
>
Yes, it really would.
1) mount -o notail
2) rm old_logfile
3) restart syslog
This will ensure the log files don't have tails at all. Knowing for sure
the bug doesn't involve tails would remove much code from the search.
-chris
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