Syslog messages are looping back

[Letharion]

In /var/log/messages any other messages are drowned in:
"syslog-ng[9596]: syslog-ng internal() messages are looping back, preventing loop by suppressing further messages; recurse_count='2'"
I (think I) understand that it's syslog feeding itself messages in an eternal loops, but I'm not sure what I can do to trace it to a source?

Another problem that shows up a lot that could possibly be related is:

[eccerr0r]

Sounds like you're remotely administrating this machine?

These gettys run the login on console. Supposedly the agettys are exiting more rapidly than init expects. If someone's at the console and keeps on sending EOF to the gettys, it would cause this problem.

But more likely the problem is that /dev/ttyX are missing and agetty will continue to recycle. Unfortunately the side effect would be that it's impossible to login on those virtual terminals, but you don't notice because you're logging in remotely. See if /dev/tty1 etc. are there or not. If not, likely it's due to udev broken... or you disabled console support in your kernel? If you deliberately disabled them, then you might well just delete the lines in your inittab and make it impossible to login on console.
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What the heck am I advocating?

[Letharion]

Thanks, I do remote administer this machine. It's a VPS, so there's no way anyone will log in at the console.

ttys:
find /dev/ | grep -c "^/dev/tty"
326

So basically, since it's a VPS and there's no physical console, I can just remove the lines?

[mimosinnet]

I have got these messages inside a linux container (LXC). After some searching, this article suggest to drop any reference to tty12 from /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.

Deleting the references to tty12, the messages have disappeared.

Cheers!
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