tinc - Jul 2011 - Rsyslog and "Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File descriptor in bad state"

Hi,

I recently had a machine filling up its harddisk with syslog and tinc
pilling up milions of messages like this:

"Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
descriptor in bad state"

I remembered that there was a difference between rsyslog and other
loggers, where one of those was skipping those messages, and simply
was displaying:

"this message has been repeated x times"

Any idea which logger it was?

Best,

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> I recently had a machine filling up its harddisk with syslog and tinc
> pilling up milions of messages like this:
> 
> "Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state"
> 
> I remembered that there was a difference between rsyslog and other
> loggers, where one of those was skipping those messages, and simply
> was displaying:
> 
> "this message has been repeated x times"
> 
> Any idea which logger it was?
Both rsyslog and Debian's sysklogd do that as far as I know. Also, tinc
1.0.15
will shut down if it gets too many errors from the tun device in a row.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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