Various small patches

[David Carter]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rob Mueller wrote:

> Good point, but is that usually a problem?

We had a bad experience with syslogd on Linux hanging under heavy load 
("-m0" is important if you syslog to a remote server). Particularly 
unpleasant as everything calling syslog on the target machine then hangs.

-- 
David Carter                             Email: David.Carter at ucs.cam.ac.uk
University Computing Service,            Phone: (01223) 334502
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,       Fax:   (01223) 334679
Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.