Serial Ports and syslogd

[Kelly Flanagan]

Hello, 
It's a bit off topic, but I'm hoping someone has seen this before. I'm running a couple of headless boxes, one is 4.7 release, the other is 4.8 release. Both have the same issue with newsyslog when I've got the serial port enabled for console management. (-h in boot.conf and a getty running on cuaa0 after the boot process) 
Logrotate tries to send an HUP to syslogd, but it's not working properly. I get rotated logs, but they stay empty. If I "nuke" syslogd, and try to restart it, it eventually dies with "waiting for child" messages and my sendmail hangs. Syslogd comes back alive after reboot. I'm just logging locally with -s -s for flags to syslogd. 
So, I find a few discussions saying fsync() may be the reason, and try swaping syslogd with this line removed in syslogd.c (without being very good at C) and knowing full well, I'll loose the most important, last few lines of logs when my machine dies. Still no help. 
/*flags = ISKERNEL | SYNC_FILE | ADDDATE;*/ 
Anybody using serial without any logging problems?  Or is there a better way to kill syslogd and restart it?