As many of you wondered, I do have the proc FS compiled into my
kernel and it was mounted and readable. I could cat /proc files during
the time of the syslog error messages. However, another interesting piece
of information that might be helpful, is that I am running quotas and one
of my users' mailboxes had exceeded their quota. These messages began at
about that time and continued until I rebooted. The messages went away
and have not reappeared since reboot, and the users' quota is no longer
full. I'll include the original log snippet.
Apr 8 08:00:21 earth kernel: Cannot read proc file system.
Apr 8 08:00:51 earth last message repeated 103105 times
Apr 8 08:01:52 earth last message repeated 210237 times
Apr 8 08:02:54 earth last message repeated 213002 times
Apr 8 08:03:54 earth last message repeated 209197 times
Apr 8 08:04:55 earth last message repeated 205076 times
Apr 8 08:05:56 earth last message repeated 208264 times
Apr 8 08:06:57 earth last message repeated 211380 times
Apr 8 08:07:58 earth last message repeated 214063 times
Apr 8 08:08:59 earth last message repeated 208583 times
Apr 8 08:10:00 earth last message repeated 213169 times
thanks,
-bp
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