Solaris 8 restart syslogd with rc script, server crash

Question

I have this Sparc Sun server. I added the -t option to the syslogd script to prevent listening for syslog requests and the server crashes when I execute S74syslog start.
release: 5.8 (64-bit)
version: Generic_117350-44
machine: sun4u
I have other solaris 8 servers and it is not happening. They are running Generic_117350-50. Has anyone experienced this issue. I could update the kernel but it is a remote server and that is not as simple as it sounds.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Whats the crash message from /var/adm/message ?
Also, if you go to /var/crash/<hostname> you will see a bunch of files there which ends in different numbers, take the number and feed it to mdb, for example if you have unix.0 and vmcore.0 you would type:
mdb 0
Then, at the new prompt, type $c to print the stack trace, for example:
unknown(/var/crash/unknown):# ls
bounds     unix.1     unix.3     unix.5     vmcore.1   vmcore.3   vmcore.5
unix.0     unix.2     unix.4     vmcore.0   vmcore.2   vmcore.4
unknown(/var/crash/unknown):# mdb 4
mdb: warning: dump is from SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09; dcmds and macros may not match kernel implementation
$cLoading modules: [ unix krtld
genunix specfs dtrace cpu.generic uppc pcplusmp ufs ip hook neti sctp arp usba uhci fctl nca lofs zfs audiosup cpc random fcip logindmux ptm ]
$cfop_rwlock+0x15(d3f43300, 1, 0)
write+0xdf()
sys_sysenter+0x101()
.. then cut the output back here for a few of them..
I think mdb was introduced in Solaris 8, if not, the old command is 'kadb'.
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