Syslogd fails with "bad file descriptor" when I send to a remote machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When the customer wants to sent his logs to a remote machine, he has the following error :

syslogd: sendto: Bad file descriptor

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4

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