Hello I just started using syslog-ng with an oracle database as my destination. I have discovered that Oracle does not accept a backslash as an escape character (I thought backslash was a standard). The following query does not work in Oracle... INSERT INTO messages (ID, TIMESTAMP, HOST ,FACILITY, PRIORITY, TAG, PROGRAM, MESSAGE) VALUES ('', to_date('2003-08-26 11:51:00', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'host1', 'local0', 'warning', '84', '1', 'STOP: \'edrasmu\' message') It will only accept a single quote for escaping a single quote... INSERT INTO messages (ID, TIMESTAMP, HOST ,FACILITY, PRIORITY, TAG, PROGRAM, MESSAGE) VALUES ('', to_date('2003-08-26 11:51:00', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'host1', 'local0', 'warning', '84', '1', 'STOP: ''edrasmu'' message') How hard would it be to change the escape character that syslog-ng is looking for, or even better, make a template_escape(string) option which accepts a custom escape string? Where is the code that handles the escaping of characters located in the source? Matt Scifo mscifo@o1.com