After upgrading recently I had some failures during startup. The first scripts 
to fail was the logger?

I had to alter my syslog-ng script so the depend statment had only the need 
and provide statemnt, rather than the test, and then add net to the need 
line. This was because I was using a custom syslog-ng script that confused 
the test so init tried to start it before the network was active.

unfortunately this also caused vixie cron to die as well. so not only was the 
system without a logger, but also a cron.
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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and
if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.  That's logic!"
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