Howdy! I want to setup syslog-ng on a large server farm and set up a test system on FreeBSD 4.10. The syslog-ng package from the ports collection would crash... so I got the latest sources of libio and syslog-ng and built it. It still crashes and dumps core. Here is a backtrace. Script started on Wed Jun 15 12:26:12 2005 bash-2.05b# gdb -c syslog-ng.core /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng [cut out the GNU preamble] Core was generated by `syslog-ng'. Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done. Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. #0 0x480b2fc4 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (gdb) bt #0 0x480b2fc4 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x480f493e in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x480d08d3 in __assert () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #3 0x80540be in io_iter (b=0x8062000) at io.c:283 #4 0x8049e5f in main_loop (backend=0x8062000) at main.c:256 #5 0x804a557 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfbffc24) at main.c:549 (gdb) quit bash-2.05b# exit Script done on Wed Jun 15 12:26:40 2005 Looks like the libio call io_iter does an assert() in line 283 and it kills/abort's the process Any more info required? I can test patches if you like. Ideas? thanx - steve The config file is simple like this # # options # options { # gc_idle_threshold(); # gc_busy_threshold(); log_fifo_size(1000); long_hostnames(off); use_dns(yes); dns_cache(yes); dns_cache_size(1000); sync(0); }; # # sources # source src { unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); udp(ip(0.0.0.0.) port(515)); tcp(ip(10.1.3.4) port(515) max-connections(30)); internal(); # file("/dev/klog"); }; # # destinations # destination d_logfiles { file("/var/syslog-ng/$HOST/$FACILITY" template("$DATE <$FACILITY.$LEVEL>: $MSG\n") template_escape(no) remove_if_older(86400) create_dirs(yes) ); }; destination d_console { file("/dev/console"); }; destination d_root { usertty("root"); }; # # log facility filters # #filter f_user { facility(user); }; # # log level filters # filter f_emerg { level(emerg); }; # # program filters # #filter f_ppp { program("ppp"); }; log { source(src); destination(d_logfiles); }; log { source(src); filter(f_emerg); destination(d_root); };