At 8:42 AM -0800 11/12/97, Michael Helm wrote:
>I'm not having very good luck with the patch mentioned here
>(among other places) for syslogd on solaris. Patch 103738-05
>may solve the immediate security problem, but at least for me,
>as soon as you attempt to restart it (SIGHUP), it stops writing
>messages to any of its files. This is usually done automatically
>by scripts that close old log files & open new (empty) ones;
>they stay empty. Unless you go looking for this, you will not
>notice it for a while (swatch or your other monitors will be
>happy &c). No news is not good news in this case ; I see this
>as a pretty big security problem in its own right.