Hmm, so I just updated the syslogd on my system yesterday (using dselect, slink 2.1 i386 system). Then I stopped receiving mail completely via qmail. About 4 hours later I realized I hadn't received any mail for the day and saw no qmail entries in my logs. I restarted qmail and received tons of mail, which trickled down and eventually stopped. Within 30 minutes, I couldn't receive any more mail. I've traced the problem to splogger blocking. If I kill splogger, everything is happy, but no qmail messages get logged. Furthermore, I've found that qmail writes to the log for the first n messages, and then just stops writing, even though messages get through in the 30 minutes or so that splogger is happy. Also, I've found that the initial qmail : starting message is not written to logs via this version of syslogd.
If no one has a definite clue or course of action, can someone tell me where I can find the previous version of syslogd? If I can get the previous version, I think I could probably figure out what is going on. -Seth -- "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"