Image location: http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/releases/yocto-1.6.2.rc1/machines/qemu/qemumips/

Git rev: daisy/313864bf528696a72c3ee6b3dec1a0c7b0b223f6

This is a similar issue with bug 6905.

The syslog daemon can not startup when system boot up. The cause is /etc/init.d/syslog.busybox script is not executable.

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root@qemumips:~# ps |grep syslog
  500 root      2780 S    grep syslog
root@qemumips:~# 
root@qemumips:~# ls -l /etc/init.d/syslog*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    26 Oct 26 20:39 /etc/init.d/syslog -> /etc/init.d/syslog.busybox
-r--r--r-- 1 root users 1711 Oct 26 18:26 /etc/init.d/syslog.busybox
root@qemumips:~# 
root@qemumips:~# /etc/init.d/syslog.busybox start
-sh: /etc/init.d/syslog.busybox: Permission denied
root@qemumips:~# 
root@qemumips:~# 
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This issue only found in qemumips sato-sdk image (ext3 and tar.bz2), not in sato image.