Problems with syslogd under 5.2-RELEASE

[David Malone]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:30:40AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> If I kill and restart syslogd by hand I get:
> 
>     # /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
>     syslogd: timed out waiting for child
> 
> Is this a known problem?  Is there a workaround?

Is your console in some wird state? (XOFF, scroll-lock-on, ...)

There have been reports of problems like this before, but they've
been hard to pin point.

	David.