Frank Ling frankling77@yahoo.com
*.info;*.!warn;authpriv.none;cron.nome;mail.none; -/var/log/messages
I guess you alread tried to restart syslog.
From the manpage: "You may prefix each entry with the minus ‘‘-’’ sign to omit syncing the file after every logging. . . ."
Maybe try to remove the '-' and restart syslog...
JD