Various small patches

[Rob Mueller]

>> 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.

Ouch.

We tried syslog-ng (1.9 something) for a while, but gave up. It started 
loosing random data all over the place, and quite a significant amount. So 
much for more reliable logging. *sigh*

Rob