Empty logfiles on 10.4.11 Server after extended uptime

I am running about a dozen Xserves in a production environment with very strict change control. The Xserves are running Tiger Server. Recently while monitoring a server's performance I tailed the SMTP log and found it empty. I then checked the system.log and it too was empty. syslog was running and showed that it has been running for 261 days (same as the overall server uptime). I performed a kill -1 on the syslog process and syslog restarted but still nothing in any of the system logs. I surveyed the rest of my servers and there was one other server with an uptime of 261 days (the next highest uptime was 94 days). This server happened to be a web server. I checked the system logs in /var/log and found the same issue (logs were empty). All of the logs in the other machines were filling up happily. All of the compressed logs were also empty which leads me to believe that the logging stopped at least 10 days ago. Other than this the system seems to be functioning normally although it is sort of hard to determine without logfiles to look at. I rebooted the mail server and it recovered normally and also started logging normally.
I have googled for this issue and haven't found any relevant information except for folks who have misconfigured syslog.
I can always reboot the servers to recover from this but I would prefer not to reboot my servers regularly. Hopefully an uptime of 261 days is not unusual or unexpected.
Anyone have any experience with this issue or recommendations?

Seems as though I have answered my own question. Here is the crux of the issue:
While walking through the process tree I discovered two "tail -f " processes from 2 months ago. These processes were presumably either orphaned or zombified from a very old ssh session. In my excitement I sent them a kill -1 before I investigated where they came from and presto, syslogd started writing to all of its logs. So there you have it. For me a simple ps aux | grep tail solved it.
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Hi all,
I've had a problem with my iMac (mid-2011 model [gestalt ID of iMac12,2]) basically ever since I got it... I suspect the problem is in software, not hardware, but I can't reproduce it on my MacBook Pro (mid-2010 model) running the same OS and same applications.
Specifically, the audio begins to "crackle" after extended uptime (typically around 20 days). This would only be mildly annoying except that after about a day or two of this, coreaudiod begins to take up 100% cpu and I get periodic mini-freezes of the entire system (mouse hang, clock hang, etc.) every time a sound tries to play. Each freeze takes maybe 2 seconds but it obviously gets really annoying, really quickly.
A reboot always fixes the problem, but it would be great to avoid having to do this. Both the iMac and the MBP are running the same OS (10.6.8, build 10K549), so the only thing I can guess is that this is related to a specific kernel extension that is active on the iMac but not on the MBP, since only the iMac has this problem.
One curiosity is that this seems to be a problem only when outputting via the internal speakers... if I connect headphones, I don't notice the problem (at least not in my limited testing). Not sure if a different kext handles output to headphones versus internal speakers, but if so, that could again be an indicator of the problem. (The Sound prefpane in System Preferences certainly knows the difference between headphones and internal speakers...)
Extensive Googling has led to zero results...
Does anyone have experience with this issue and/or know of a good solution, besides upgrading to 10.7/10.8? (For institutional reasons, I prefer not to upgrade at this time, if it can be avoided.)
Thanks in advance.

I take back the "curiosity" paragraph... today, the same stuttering/crackling is coming through the headphones, too. Looks like it's not limited to just the internal speakers.
This is quite maddening. I hope that someone might have an answer (besides just rebooting).
Thanks!

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Running Linux 2.6.18, Sun JDK 1.6.0_14, and WebLogic 10.3, we have a correctly functioning nodemanager watching a single managed server. If I kill -9 the managed server, the nodemanager fires up a new one immediately. If, however, we reboot the box, the nodemanager will start cleanly and will not start the managed server. It appears to believe the node should remain down and reports its status as UNKNOWN.
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To fix this always set the following properties in the nodemanager.properties on the node maager home directory.
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Note: As per official documentation .lck files are required for weblogic node managers to do auto restart after system crash
From Official documentation:
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Expert advice needed: Why could I not connect to my own server after deletion of SSL certificate?

Issue: Could not connect to my own server after deletion of SSL certificate despite having SSL disabled
Hello,
I admit I am lay user with rudimentary SSL knowledge and I therefore messed up my certificates and I could no longer access my own server (Wikis, WebDav, Device Manager) with Safari. (error: Safari can't connect to server)
Eventually, I could resolve the problem but I do not understand why there was problem in the first place.
Maybe someone can explain that to me ?
OK, here is what I did:
I created a Certificate Authority because I wanted to use a free SSL Server certificate for our private server.
(I followed http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/mac/create-your-own-ssl-ca-with-the-os-x-keycha in/388 )
Despite several attempts I never got the server to accept the certificate for web services, the certificate was accepted for iCal, Mail and iChat but not for Web services. I tested an older certificate that was created when I set up the server and that that worked for all services incl. Web. So the problem was with my certificate only.
Out of desperation and lack of concentration I deleted the "original" certificate.
Now, I soon noticed that I could no longer log in to my server. I solved the problem by restoring the original certificate.
My question:
I had SSL disabled in the Server app settings. Why does Safari still look for a proper certicate ? (the server logfile had an entry that a .pem file could not be found which makes sense if the cert has been deleted)
I would be very grateful for an expert advice.
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Because....
the server does not have a 'trusted' certificate assigned to it.
Only the RDP Gateway has the trusted certificate for the external name.
If you want to remove that error, you have to do one of the following:
Make sure your domain uses a public top level domaim, and get a public trusted certificate for your server.
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server.domain.publicdomain.com
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Install that certificate on your remote computer so it is trusted.
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