Okay, perhaps I'm an idiot, but with a freshly downloaded and compiled syslog-ng 1.6.6, I get the following: syslogng.conf (one line long): destination d_tcp { tcp("10.1.2.3") port(1999); localport(999)); }; (which is, you'll notice, copied directly out of the docs) But I get: : [elfchief@bluetail /tmp]% /sbin/syslog-ng --cfgfile=/tmp/syslogng.conf --syntax-only : syntax error at 1 : Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 1) ... and no matter what I put in there (I tried a lot of permutations, and even cut&pasted bits of other people's configs I saw in the mailing list archives), I can't seem to get the option to parse. Am I missing something fundamental here? Given that this is the one feature I'd really like to use syslog-ng for, it'd be nice if I could get it to work! I appreciate any thoughts anyone cares to share... -jay