From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 15:04:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061B31065670 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw4.njit.edu (mail-gw4.njit.edu [128.235.251.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B338FC0C for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from gilgamesh.maestro (dhcp114-134.njit.edu [128.235.114.134]) by mail-gw4.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m75EERxA014347 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <489860BA.8030300@wallnet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:16:26 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071217) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: syslogd stopped X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:04:11 -0000 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