... ciao: : on "9-6-2006" "Luca Ferrari" writ: : the syslogd daemon crashes at one time i had a similar problem with klogd. the first thing i did was to determine "when" it 'had' stopped running. in your case, i think it important to discover if the daemon has "been" stopped, or, as you say, "crashed". i used cron to test for a pid every minute. in my case, i noticed a specific time when the failure occurred. that's a good thing to notice ... -- ... i'm a man, but i can change, if i have to , i guess ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html