syslogd exits with fatal error [Was Re: newsyslog does not find...]

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:08:42AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> This is on 8.0_RC1 amd64.
> 
>     newsyslog: /var/run/syslogd.pid: No such file or directory
> 

syslogd is sometimes exiting, not sure why, there is no disk space issue,
nothing with heavy use of memory/swap is running.

Last log says:

 localhost syslogd[293]: Fatal error, exiting

I could enable syslogd verbose option as a last resort; but not sure about
when it would trigger next, hence would preferably like to avoid keeping
verbose enabled.

Are there any other known issues why syslogd would exit?

Mayuresh