On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:47:10AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:10:40PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > BTW, I suspect you have some very special setup. I have > 20
> > NetBSD servers (i386, alpha, sparc), some of them with very large
> > uptime (> 500 days) and the only time I've seen that was when someone
> > hit the 'scroll lock' on the console. Unlocking it unwedged syslogd.
> 
> Is there a way to have the console scroll through it's buffers even
> when scroll-lock is on?  You could then still freeze a screen, but not
> otherwise hurt the system.

This would just delay the problem. There's always a time where the scroll
buffer will be full.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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