syslogd stopped

[Tim Kellers]

I hit send too soon, the machine is:

FreeBSD www 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:18:52 UTC 
2008     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Tim Kellers wrote:
> I found some OLD reports of this happening (back in 2001 or so), but I 
> haven't seen anyone mention it.
>
> On August 1st, my /var/log/maillog files started rolling over empty 
> files, nightly, with only the "logfile turned over [date]" message in 
> them.
>
> Turns out, syslogd stopped running.  As soon as I restarted it, and 
> grepped for it:
>
> # ps -ax | grep syslog
> 48049  ??  Ss     0:00.02 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
>
> It began running and my /var/log/maillog file has entries once 
> again.   I'm a little baffled; does anyone have any idea what might be 
> going on or could maybe point me to a resource I might have missed 
> that discusses it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
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