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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!join.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!in2p3.fr!news-ge.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!sirio.cineca.it!menelao.polito.it!not-for-mail From: Paolo Tealdi <tealdi@polito.it> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange kernel log messages .... Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:51:05 +0200 Organization: Politecnico di Torino - Italia Message-ID: <33C5D7D9.760F@polito.it> References: <33C48FAE.3FFC@polito.it> <5q34u6$pah$3@opus.anet-stl.com> Reply-To: tealdi@polito.it NNTP-Posting-Host: demostene.polito.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44254 doogie wrote: > > Paolo Tealdi <tealdi@polito.it> wrote: > > > I have a 2.2.1 RELEASE system that every morning send me the > > security check output mail. > > The kernel log alwais report this strange sequence of escapes > > characters .... > > Somebody can tell me what they are ? > > > > > > If you boot into the kernel configuration (-c at the boot prompt) it > throws some garbage into the kernel message list. I believe it's all the > ansi positioning code and such. If you don't boot like that, you wont' get > all that. Thanks .... i don't remember (it's 25 days that our system is up ... like a W95 box :-)) )if i booted with -c ( i don't really think) but, i'll try to reboot and wait for the next system mail .... Thanks, Paolo Tealdi -- Ing. Paolo Tealdi Library & News System Administrator Politecnico Torino Phone : +39-11-5646714 , FAX : +39-11-5646799 C.so D. degli Abruzzi, 24 Home Phone : +39-11-7764956 10129 Torino - ITALY Email : tealdi@polito.it