Hi, I am facing a somewhat strange issue on AIX 5.3. I am unable to restart the daemon whenever i try to set it up as a central server. On a a normal case it works fine . After copying my syslog-ng.conf.server-sample as syslog-ng.conf., when i restart the daemon, it does not comlian about anything and gives me a PID as well. But the daemon does not seem to have started. Below are the logs. Setting Up as A Central Server ======================= cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>cp syslog-ng.conf.server-sample syslog-ng.conf cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>/*opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart *0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, syslog_ng, is currently inoperative. 0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 233502. cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>ps -ef|grep -i syslog cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>lssrc -a|grep -i syslog * syslog_ng local inoperative * But , otherwise as in a normal case or even as a client it wors perfectly fine. cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>cp syslog-ng.conf.bkp syslog-ng.conf cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/init.d/syslog-ng.d restart 0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, syslog_ng, is currently inoperative. 0513-059 The syslog_ng Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 155708. cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>ps -ef|grep -i syslog root 155708 139370 0 05:43:40 - 0:00 /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng cscaixlgg059:root:/opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc>lssrc -a|grep -i syslog syslog_ng local 155708 active I created the syslog_ng substem as below */bin/mkssys -s syslog_ng -p /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/sbin/syslog-ng -a ' -F -f /opt/soe/local/syslog_ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf ' -u 0 -S -n 15 -f 9 -G local * Can someone please advice? Thanks & Regards, Rakesh