On 15:25:22 Hamish Moffatt wrote: >>On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 11:04:39AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> Speaking of syslogd, when I boot the machine it hangs for 5 ro 10 seconds >> when syslogd starts. It didn't used to. >> I'm running from unstable. Anybody know what it's doing? > >Does this here too ... Keeps the machine at high CPU load for that >time too. (*) > I see this here on 1.1 also, but I thought it might be due to my system losing the sense of "who" it is! I no longer see the hostname on the login prompt, or if I do a uname -a , for example. And, no info goes to /var/log/messages (since syslogd doesn't start I presume). Where else, other than the /etc/hostname does it keep what it believes to be the hostname of the system? If I knew that, I think I could fix this on my end........I think!?
Paul