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I am at wits end about why our syslog daemon has suddenly stopped
logging messages on our DecStation 5000/240, running Ultrix 4.2A (Rev
47).  Yesterday we rebooted it, after quite a long time of being up, and
now the /etc/syslog daemon no longer writes anything to the syslog file.
The syslog.conf has not changed, nor has the sendmail or named software
(although both of their config files HAVE changed).  Now syslog only
reports its own startup and termination events.  Oddly, we HAVE gotten
it to log some events from a linux system over the network, while it
still refuses to log events on its own host!  Arrgghh!

One of our sysadmins tried installing a newer syslog program, obtained
from "gatekeeper.dec.com", I believe.  That did not help.

Has anyone been through this before?  Am I missing something obvious?
By the way, our reason for the reboot was to change our default domain
name on that host, from "HSC.Colorado.edu" to "UCHSC.edu".  Could that
be relevant in any way?

Thanks,

Jim Adams
Information Systems Department
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado, USA
Jim.Adams@UCHSC.edu