If both POPs were down then the connection would fail, as would a reload. The server responds to the Client's HTTP request. In addition syslog should prepend the date that the message was logged and the hostname of the host on which the message was produced. Once this is done restart syslogd . If syslog was installed as an RPM this may be done using the syslog init script.
Patches are always welcome.
To browse the CVS repository over the web take a look at Super Sparrow's Source Forge page . Details of which version of dents the module will compile against.