[expert] syslog playing up

[Tom Strickland]

Another problem:
Recently the computer started freezing at startup unless I did the following:

1) start as single user
2) start syslog:
        # /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
3) carry on the startup (ctrl-d)

logrotate isn't working either - it complains:

# logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
error: syslog:211 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog

The two problems may be separate - logrotate hasn't been working for a while.

tom