The most likely problem then, is that some news directories associated with inn are still present in /etc/syslog.conf. Delete these entries in this file (as I remember they are near the beginning) and then everything should work correctly. (I had the same problem....)
Paul On 06-Mar-97 Karlheinz Nolte wrote: >>Hello all, > >I have an Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. > >The problem I have is as follows: > >After booting the PC, the syslogd daemon is permanently in the run >state. Therefore the PC (486DX33) is very slow. When I kill the syslogd, >and start it by hand with "/sbin/syslogd", the syslogd now sleeps. > >I think this is a problem of the "start-stop-daemon" perl script, which >is used in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd startup script. > >This problem I have only since last week. I remember, that I deinstalled >the inn package at this time. Could that be the reason for this >behaviour? > >Thanks in advance, > >Karlheinz. >-- >Karlheinz Nolte, VS/ETB5, ALCATEL SEL AG >D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany >Tel.: +49-711-821-41834 >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------
