My syslog is filled with STATS lines every 2 minutes so I decided to delay the stats every 1 hour, or 3600 seconds. I added this to my options line but it causes a syntax error in the conf. The problem also occurred in the previous 1.9 build. Slackware 10.2 # uname -a && syslog-ng -V Linux santo 2.6.14.3 #1 Wed Dec 7 22:59:32 EST 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux syslog-ng 1.9.8 # cat /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf | grep options options { stats(3600); long_hostnames(off); sync(0); }; I stop and start syslog-ng. rc.syslog is a script i found but it also happens when just executing syslog-ng by itself. root@santo:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.syslog start syslog-ng service starting. syntax error at 12 root@santo:/etc/rc.d# Now I remove the stats() option # cat /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf | grep options options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); }; root@santo:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.syslog start syslog-ng service starting. root@santo:/etc/rc.d# syslog-ng starts successfully Thanks for any help you may be able to provide -Sean