syslogd keeps failing

[ed.kalk]

syslogd failed @ Tue Jul 1 10:39:26 2008. A restart was attempted automagically.

 

[MattDees]

Sadly this isn't enough information to determine the source of the issue. If you could please log into your server and paste the output of "ps auxw | grep syslog" it should give use a better idea of what is going on.

Also, what distribution is your server running?

 

[chirpy]

Check /var/log/messages for any errors relating to syslog. /var/log/chkservd.log might also shed some light into why it thought it was stopped. Also, make sure you're not running anything that might kill it off (PRM comes to mind).

 

[ed.kalk]

output of "ps auxw | grep syslog"

syslog 15157 0.0 0.0 1640 756 ? S 10:56 0:00 syslogd -m 0 -u syslog -a /var/spool/sysklog.d/dev/log
syslog 15161 0.0 0.0 2244 1416 ? S 10:56 0:00 klogd -u syslog
root 15814 0.0 0.0 1456 508 pts/2 S 10:58 0:00 grep syslog

 

[ed.kalk]

Not sure how to check all that

Check /var/log/messages for any errors relating to syslog. /var/log/chkservd.log might also shed some light into why it thought it was stopped. Also, make sure you're not running anything that might kill it off (PRM comes to mind).

How do I do this?