SunOS 4.0 on 4/110 problem

[Mike Arena]

In article <1221 at bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams at max.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) writes:
>In article <20036 at adm.BRL.MIL> MATHRICH at umcvmb.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel UMC Math Department) writes:
>>Has anyone seen this:  For no apparent reason, the cpu performance meter
>>starts pegging out.  PS indicates that syslogd is hogging 90%+ of the cpu.
>>Rebooting seems to be the only fix.
>
>	Check your /etc/syslog.conf file. The first line must be
>            define(LOGHOSTS, 1)
                           ^
>If it's not, syslog will hog the cpu. There is a bug in the 4.0 build procedure
>that fails to insert this line.  This is documented somewhere, but I can't 
>recall where at the moment.

I tried define(LOGHOST,1) and that seemed to work after sending the syslogd
process the HUP signal.  But I did get a message saying that there was no
/var/log/syslog file.  Is this undesirable?
However, I could not find this in the documentation.  I looked at syslogd(8)
and syslog.conf(5) but no luck.
I am very new to system administration on Sun computers (we have a 4/110 with
SUN OS 4.0.1) so I would like to find out more useful tidbits like the one
above.
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