problem while restarting auditd

Guys, Good Morning/Afternoon/evening ! One strange thing I'm seeing in /var/log/messages w.r.t. auditd restart. 2011-09-14T11:49:14.541661-07:00 audisp-remote: audisp-remote is exiting on stop request 2011-09-14T11:49:18.741166-07:00 kernel: audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=1652525 2011-09-14T11:49:18.741190-07:00 kernel: __ratelimit: 366 callbacks suppressed 2011-09-14T11:49:18.745558-07:00 auditd[1654362]: Started dispatcher: /sbin/audispd pid: 1654364 2011-09-14T11:49:18.746081-07:00 audispd: max_restarts_parser called with: 10 2011-09-14T11:49:18.746099-07:00 audispd: priority_boost_parser called with: 10 2011-09-14T11:49:18.746666-07:00 audispd: audispd initialized with q_depth=90000 and 1 active plugins 2011-09-14T11:49:18.747047-07:00 audisp-remote: Connected to <remote_audit_logging_server_IP> 2011-09-14T11:49:18.750761-07:00 kernel: audit: audit_lost=3823 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=20480 2011-09-14T11:49:18.750773-07:00 kernel: audit: auditd dissapeared <========= why this message? 2011-09-14T11:49:18.750777-07:00 kernel: Whenever I'm restarting the auditd using 'service auditd restart' command, the auditd gets restarted. But the very next moment, I get "kernel: audit: auditd dissapeared " message & auditing stops (actually it falls back to syslog). I've to again run 'service auditd restart' to get the auditing back. So it is taking two restart operation to do the job. This behavior is consistent & I can recreate at will. Also ,when I'm doing 'service auditd stop', followed by 'serveri auditd start', this is working as desired. I also tried putting 'sleep 2' between stop & start in /etc/init.d/auditd, this doesn't solve the issue either. Is this a know bug and any recommendation over it ? I'm using audit-2.1-5.el6.x86_64 and audispd-plugins-2.1-5.el6.x86_64 on RHEL 6.1. Thanks a lot for your help!! -- -Rathor