On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:39:13PM +0200, joern@bredereck.net wrote:

Hi,

I tried several vdr versions, but they all share the same problem on my Ubuntu (currentyl 6.06) box: vdr starts very slowly when the syslog daemon is running. The vdr bootup takes about 1-2 minutes with syslog running. After stopping the syslogd vdr starts in about 10 seconds and responds in no time.

Has anybody heard of this problem and has some kind of clue how to fix it or to dig deeper in order to find the reason?

Don't know anything about Ubuntu but I guess that the syslogd is forced to write out any log message in synch. You should configure your syslogd or syslogd-ng in such a way that only emergency and warning messages are written out in sync and the rest of all messages just asynchronously.

Werner