Bug#2552: syslogd and race conditions

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Bug#2552: syslogd and race conditions"):
> syslogd appears to be affected by some race condition so that it won't
> necessarily start up reliably.  I don't know if the race condition is
> in syslogd or in the kernel.  I don't know if configuring syslogd to
> write to /dev/xconsole has anything to do with it.  I suspect that
> there are factors I'm not really aware of here.

I'm having trouble with syslogd too:

1. It makes my system take a very long time to start up, for some
reason.  I'm pretty sure it's syslogd that's the problem, because the
first thing it does when it is about to get going again is print all
the boot-time kernel messages.  I conjecture that the other processes
that want to log things are having to wait.

2. It randomly stops logging to /dev/tty8 when my backup scripts
happen !  I have to send it a SIGHUP.

Ian.