> Any ideas as to what happened and what is the remedy will be very much > appreciated.
This is a very common problem, and solution has been posted many times. Sysklogd -29 is broken. reboot in single user mode chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd reboot install a new sysklogd (-30) or the hamm version make it executable start it voila HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/