On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 16:18:42 +1000, Dan <ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This morning there were a lot of hung sendmail and cron processes, and > probably others. Only once I stopped/killed and then restarted rsyslog > did these processes become unstuck. This is becoming the typical Sunday > procedure with my current rsyslog configuration. This sounds like a long standing kernel bug I had run into that is now fixed in rawhide, though I don't know whether or not it is fixed in F8. (It wasn't last fall, but I have since moved all of my F8 boxes to rawhide.) Take a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249563 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235043