I just ran "yum update" and rebooted. syslogd hung on startup, so I rebooted into single-user mode, ran "chkconfig syslog off" and booted back up into runlevel 5. When I run "strace syslogd -m 0", it hangs forever at the nanosleep call below: set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xf6ff1aa0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xf6ff2000, 55869) = 0 getpid() = 4280 chdir("/") = 0 brk(0) = 0x9d36000 brk(0x9d57000) = 0x9d57000 open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xe81104, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x138a48}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID| SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xf6ff1ae8) = 4281 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 nanosleep({300, 0}, Any ideas how to get this working again? kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 sysklogd-1.4.1-22 Thank you. /Brian/