Hi Guys Wow, thanks for all your replies! So at least I'm not the only one having problems. - I'm running Debian testing with (self-compiled *boah*) Kernel 2.4.25 - I replaced syslog-ng with syslog until the issues are fixed - dpkg says I had the following syslog-ng installed: rc syslog-ng 1.9.9-1 Next generation logging daemon Really confusing, since Balazs is talking about 1.6.11 ... Do Debian maintainers follow a different numbering scheme? - My configuration is available as a download at http://mad4you.homeip.net/downloads/syslog-ng.conf . Note: It cannot be caused by this, since I soon replaced syslog-ng.conf with the one the original Debian package provided (to rule out exactly such a cause) Many thanks! Kind regards Mario -- Mario Aeby Stritenstrasse 47 CH-3176 Neuenegg Mobile 078 690 50 11 Fax 031 741 28 93 http://www.eMeidi.com/