Re: syslog troubles

[Tony Nugent]

On Mon Aug 10 1998, Jovanny Saravia wrote:

> I think I have a problem with syslog.
> syslog very often shoots up an takes 70% of the machine CPU,
> but it does not write to the logs
> How can I diagnose what is happening ?

Make sure that you have a valid /etc/syslog.conf file.

Run syslogd in debug mode (or via strace).  See the man pages for syslogd
and strace for the details.

Cheers
Tony