Hi , When there was no daemon of "syslog-ng" was running ******************************************************************** [root@svllgg181 tmp]# ps -eaf |grep -i syslog-ng root 2631 2597 0 10:58 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i syslog-ng [root@svllgg181 tmp]# ********************************************************************* in the absence of "syslog-ng" daemon I was easily able to restart the "setroubleshootd" daemon [root@svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart Stopping setroubleshootd: [ OK ] Starting setroubleshootd: [ OK ] [root@svllgg181 tmp]# ******************************************************************************************* Now I started the "syslog-ng" daemon [root@svllgg181 tmp]# ps -eaf |grep -i syslog-ng root 2718 1 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng root 2746 2597 0 11:00 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i syslog-ng [root@svllgg181 tmp]# ***************************************************************************************** And I tried to start the "setroubleshoot", now it gives error. [root@svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart Stopping setroubleshootd: [ OK ] Starting setroubleshootd: [ OK ] [root@svllgg181 tmp]# Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd", line 59, in ? from setroubleshoot.config import cfg File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__init__.py", line 24, in ? log_init(sys.argv[0]) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/log.py", line 127, in log_init syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log') File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 602, in __init__ self._connect_unixsocket(address) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 617, in _connect_unixsocket self.socket.connect(address) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied') [root@svllgg181 tmp]# [root@svllgg181 tmp]# /etc/init.d/setroubleshoot restart Stopping setroubleshootd: [FAILED] Starting setroubleshootd: [ OK ] [root@svllgg181 tmp]# Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd", line 59, in ? from setroubleshoot.config import cfg File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__init__.py", line 24, in ? log_init(sys.argv[0]) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setroubleshoot/log.py", line 127, in log_init syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log') File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 602, in __init__ self._connect_unixsocket(address) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/logging/handlers.py", line 617, in _connect_unixsocket self.socket.connect(address) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied') Note: "Syslog-ng" daemon killing the "setroubleshoot" daemon. Can anyone please suggest me the cause and any work around. I'm using syslog-ng-2.0.2 release. Thanks in advance Shamim, --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today.