Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
OK.. problem solved. I overlooked an entry I had set up in /etc/syslog.conf that called local8 for the new software I had installed.
So back at the very beginning when I asked you to verify your package...
rpm -V sysklogd
That would have told you that /etc/syslog.conf was changed.
In the future you should be a little more thorough when following the advice of people taking time out of their day trying to debug problems for you remotely. If you don't understand what they are asking you to do, ask.
j
Jason,
It was not the package itself. It's OK. it was the syslog.conf that I had made an error in an entry I didn't catch at first. There is no such thing as a "local8" and that is what I had for logging. That was what was killing the whole shebang. I knew the syslog had changed, I just didn't catch the error by being in a hurry.
Sorry to trouble you.....
-s