This is not intended to say that what you found is not a bug, just that
there is a way to detect it.
cheers, kinch
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, 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.
>