Ok, I guess I'm just too used to the Windows environment that I'm having a hard time adjusting to command line interfaces. Here's the deal: I need to get syslog-ng running on my server. I think I have it installed, downloading the file from sunfreeware.com, putting the file in the /var/spool/pkg directory (file = syslogng-2.0.9-sol10-sparc-local.gz). I then used the pkgadd -d command to install it, which seemed to be fine. But where do I go from here? Has it started or do I need to manually start it? I'm also looking for a syslog-ng.conf file in order to modify it - I'm using this to push log data to another server, and according to the central logging program we are using, I need to modify this file like this: options { use_fqdn(yes); log_fifo_size(8192); }; source local { file("/var/log/messages"); udp(ip(127.0.0.1) port(514)); internal(); }; filter notdebug { level(info...emerg); } destination loghost { tcp("name.of.yoursplunkserver" port (9514)); }; log { source(local); filter(notdebug); destination(loghost); }; Any advice/or guidance is greatly appreciated. I know the more I use these Unix boxes, the more I'll learn... Jamen McGranahan Systems Services Librarian Vanderbilt University 419 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37240