In message <29090.1057315136@munnari.OZ.AU>, Robert Elz writes:
>  | Where's the 123 come from?

>That will be syslogd.   Newsyslog assumes  that most log files are
>syslogd produced, unless it is told otherwise.   So, it beats on
>syslogd (which it simply knows how to locate) by default.

Yes.  The problem there was that "ps ax" didn't find a 123, so I assumed
it must be a hardcoded magic value.

In fact, the real problem was running "ps ax" on a different machine.

-s