On 2018-10-01, Tom Smyth <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote: > AFAIK it is just restarting to facilitate the rolling of logfiles...
That's right, but ... >> Sep 26 10:00:07 <IP> syslogd: dropped 9 messages during initialization >> Sep 26 10:00:07 <IP> syslogd: restart >> Sep 26 16:38:44 <IP> syslogd: dropped 5 messages during initialization >> Sep 26 16:38:44 <IP> syslogd: restart >> Sep 27 14:00:01 <IP> syslogd: dropped 9 messages during initialization >> Sep 27 14:00:01 <IP> syslogd: restart this doesn't normally happen. What are the contents of syslog.conf? That might give some clues.