How did you verify that the syslog daemon wasn't running? How did you restart the syslog? Is this in a single instance or on your HA machines? Anything in the logfiles? Did you check the "old" logfiles, especially the latest daemon.log and latest fallback.log?
How did you verify that the syslog daemon wasn't running? How did you restart the syslog? Is this in a single instance or on your HA machines? Anything in the logfiles? Did you check the "old" logfiles, especially the latest daemon.log and latest fallback.log?