Re: Error message from cron, regarding "newsyslog"

[Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>]

> Every so often for the past week or so I've gotten the following mail from
> crontab:
> 
> [...]
> newsyslog: preposterous process number: 40984
> 
> --
> 
> ps -p reports this:
> 
> bash-2.02$ ps -p 40984
>   PID TT   STAT      TIME COMMAND
> 40984 ??  Is      0:00.70 syslogd -a /var/named/dev/log

You upgraded your kernel, which now permits uids up to 99999.  newsyslog
however still has the old limit compiled into itself.