Issues with rsyslog with database logging on fedora 8

Sun Apr 13 15:15:32 UTC 2008

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 16:18:42 +1000,
  Dan <ml at mutox.org> wrote:
> 
> This morning there were a lot of hung sendmail and cron processes, and 
> probably others. Only once I stopped/killed and then restarted rsyslog 
> did these processes become unstuck. This is becoming the typical Sunday 
> procedure with my current rsyslog configuration.

This sounds like a long standing kernel bug I had run into that is now
fixed in rawhide, though I don't know whether or not it is fixed in
F8. (It wasn't last fall, but I have since moved all of my F8 boxes to
rawhide.) Take a look at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249563
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235043