Posting from phone, please excuse the formatting.

It is waiting for entropy to build. Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will
speed it up but I have machines only controlled by IR so this was not
helpful.

I switched to sysklogd and installed havaged and the problem went away.

Dan

On Fri., Oct. 18, 2019, 13:52 Neil Bothwick, <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:14:45 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > Within the past week or two, I've noticed that on one of my machines
> > when syslog-ng is starting at boot, it pauses for about 10s with a
> > message something like "checking config file".  I'm using the default
> > installed config file, and it has a single non-coment line in it:
> >
> >    SYSLOG_NG_OPTS=""
>
> That sounds like a file in /etc/conf.d, the file it is checking is
> /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - where you should check the @version line
> matches the installed version.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Suborbital Ballistic-Propulsion Engineer
> Not Exactly A Rocket Scientist
>

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