Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local

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Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local

This morning, while using terminal to ssh to another computer, I was getting messages like the one below. When I re-started my computer it wouldn't come back up so I did a disk repair and file permissions repair. I'm up now, but I recently had to reinstall my operating system because my computer failed to come back at all from a restart, and doing the disk repair, etc. didn't help.

So I'm concerned that this is in indication that something is still wrong. Thank you in advance for any help and direction! Here is the message that kept repeating every few seconds:

Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local
(no tty) at 11:56 EST...

Nov 21 11:56:49 Macintosh-5 kernel[0]:

Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local
(no tty) at 11:56 EST...

Nov 21 11:56:56 Macintosh-5 kernel[0]:

Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local
(no tty) at 11:57 EST...

Nov 21 11:57:01 Macintosh-5 kernel[0]:

Broadcast Message from root@Macintosh-5.local
(no tty) at 11:57 EST...

Nov 21 11:57:11 Macintosh-5 kernel[0]:

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 10:30 AM

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Answer 1

a brody

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Nov 21, 2010 11:28 AM in response to Stacy Horn

Since Powerbooks can't run 10.6 we are kind of confused what the origin of your problem might be.
Please state if it is on 10.6.5 the problem is happening, or if it is happening on an older Mac OS X.

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Answer 2

MrHoffman

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Nov 21, 2010 12:00 PM in response to Stacy Horn

Are those the complete messages, or was there text expurgated at the ellipses?

Those are syslog messages, and usually controlled via settings in /etc/syslog.conf and /etc/asl.conf configuration files. (The lines in those involved are probably the "kern" lines.)

If you're not sure, post the files (and the full error message text) and we'll have a look.

There could well be issues here; there's not enough to go on.

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Answer 3

Stacy Horn Author

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Nov 21, 2010 12:18 PM in response to a brody

Hi. This is on a Macbook running 10.6.5. I didn't notice that Powerbook had been auto-written somehow in that model field.

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Stacy Horn Author

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Nov 21, 2010 12:26 PM in response to MrHoffman

That was actually the complete and full extent of the messages which just kept repeating every few seconds. That was a direct cut and paste. No files mentioned!

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Answer 5

a brody

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Nov 21, 2010 12:51 PM in response to Stacy Horn

It would be autowritten based on your My settings info (also available below the Logout link on the right). Since you have some help, I'm not going to ask this thread be moved.

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