daemons reloading

[y199mp1505 at gmail.com]

> 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?


I didn't see anything helpful in the logs but I have now a working
hypothesis.

When I switch from the desktop to e.g. tty1 I am not root, I am
a simple user. From the syslogd manpage, I gather that syslog fails
accessing its files because of my lowly status and upon failure
it restarts.

Possible remedy:

	SYSLOGD="-u"

in /etc/default/syslog.

This is ubuntu 9.04.