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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers HELP! The '/var/adm/message' file increase every few seconds??? Post 28340 by Kelam_Magnus on Tuesday 17th of September 2002 10:25:39 AM
Old 09-17-2002
First, I would do a ps -aef |grep bootpd to see how the command is running. Next, to keep the file from growing, I believe you can send the output to /dev/null by linking the file there, as follows.

ln -s /var/adm/messages /dev/null

When you eventually fix the problem, then remove the link.


Now, I would read the man page for bootpd. It will tell you a great deal.

I wouldn't necessarily do this step, but you can to stop the messages. Next, if you choose to you can edit the /etc/inetd.conf file and comment out the line for that. Also, in /etc/services.

OR you can kill and restart the bootpd daemon if you need it to be running.

ps -aef |grep bootpd |grep -v grep
kill PID # for bootpd

/usr/lbin/bootpd -s

Try these steps and get back... Smilie
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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