Minor Logs Issue

[Hlingler]

Hello,

I can't for the life of me figure out what is generating these entries in my "messages" log, but they're chewing up a lot of log space:

Jan 14 10:57:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:07:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:17:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:27:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:37:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:47:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 11:57:26 localhost syslog-ng[2441]: STATS: dropped 0
Jan 14 12:03:10 localhost automount[2504]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process
Jan 14 12:03:10 localhost automount[2504]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process
Jan 14 12:03:10 localhost automount[2504]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory
Jan 14 12:07:07 localhost automount[2504]: create_udp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process
Jan 14 12:07:07 localhost automount[2504]: create_tcp_client: hostname lookup failed: No such process
Jan 14 12:07:07 localhost automount[2504]: lookup_mount: exports lookup failed for .directory

They look minor/innocuous, and I don't see any problems. I've checked the config files for syslog-ng and automount, but I don't see anything that looks guilty. Am I missing something? BTW, I'm running both syslogd and syslog-ng to find out which I like better.
Any ideas?
Thanx,
Vince
P.S. Hi, Bob! and thanks for your help.

[Hlingler]

No, seriously, the answer is critical to my evil plot to conquer the world. I simply MUST know....

[u-noneinc-s]

I don't have an answer, but I just have to say "That's the best `bumps' I've seen yet," So with that, I give you a ligitimate bump.
I can tell you that [2441] and [2504] are the respective PIDs of the syslog-ng and automount processes. As for the messages themselves... ???
I get some automount errors myself, but they are harmless and I just ignore them since I don't know "exactly" where they are originating.