Hi, Our purpose is to set up a syslog-ng server to receive the log messages from other unix servers (linux and solaris) based on each hostname. I am setting syslog-ng 1.6 on Red Hat 7.3 for the first time. The compiling installation looks ok (./configure, make, and make install) on both libol-0.3.9 and syslog-ng-1.6.0rc1. After compiling I copied a starup script and a syslog-ng.conf as followings: # cp syslog-ng-1.6.0rc1/contrib/syslog-ng.conf.RedHat /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf # cp syslog-ng-1.6.0rc1/contrib/init.d.RedHat-7.3 /etc/init.d/syslog-ng # /etc/init.d/syslog stop # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start Starting syslog-ng: Cannot open configuration file /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for reading Parse error reading configuration file, exiting. (line 1) [Failed] Only after I moved syslog-ng.conf to /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng, syslog-ng could start. # mv /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start Starting syslog-ng: [ OK ] (1) My question is why it forced me to use /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng instead of default location of /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf? (2) After starting syslog-ng, I am trying to set up a basic config file to receive log messages from each Unix servers based on hostname. I am look for the good examples of a basic config file for my requirments. Could anyone provide some information? (3) I think that I only need to install syslog-ng on the central log server. I don't need to install syslog-ng on every Unix servers, am I right? If I don't need to install syslog-ng on each syslog-ng client, should I do anything on each syslog-ng client? Thanks, Hong