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Description of problem:
All log files written by syslogd since at least a month ago have empty
messages.  Here is an example from /var/log/messages

Aug 25 11:55:14 samwise exiting on signal 15
Aug 25 12:51:55 samwise syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Aug 25 12:51:55 samwise
Aug 25 12:51:55 samwise last message repeated 208 times
Aug 25 12:51:57 samwise
Aug 25 12:51:57 samwise
Aug 25 12:52:01 samwise

This includes the following files:
  /var/log/{messages,secure,maillog,boot.log,cron}

All available saved versions are the same way (messages.1, messages.2,
etc); the oldest messages are from July 25th.  

The rpm -qi reports that the package was installed June 14th. 

Verifying with rpm -qV succeeds.

Running syslogd -d and then sending it messages through "logger"
reveals that syslogd is receiving messages, of various lengths (1 char
in logger -> message size of 34, 2 chars -> 35, but the message is
apparently empty.  Example output:

Successful select, descriptor count = 1, Activity on: 3
Message from UNIX socket: #3
Message length: 31, File descriptor: 3.
logmsg: user.alert<9>, flags 2, from samwise, msg
msg repeated 1 times, 124 sec of 60.
Called fprintlog, logging to FILE /var/log/messages
Calling select, active file descriptors (max 3): 3
 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.4.1-18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot the system
2.Examine /var/log/messages
3.
    

Actual Results:  /var/log/messages is full of empty messages
(timestamped but empty).

Expected Results:  /var/log/messages is full of system messages

Additional info: