daemons reloading

[petevg at gmail.com]

> I had to comment out reloading messages in /etc/init.d
> for syslogd and cups. They were dirting the text console
> (tty1-tty6) every few minutes.

It sounds like the deamons are crashing periodically.

One questions:  What version of Ubuntu are you using?

One suggestion:  take a look at the logs in /var/logs/.  Are there any
entries in those logs that seem to shed more light on the problem?

~PeteVG

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