At 09:53 AM 10/22/98 , you wrote:
>I'm running NetBSD-1.3F (July 22 sources or so) on an 386/33, 8MB RAM.
>The machine's been up and working fine for 39 days, but last night, su
>and syslogd quit working. If I su and enter root's password, su hangs in
>ttyout:

What is /dev/console?  Could it be ^S'ed (XOFFed) or equivalent?
That's usually what has happened to me when I get in that situation
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