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 >