Hi, a Cygwin user got a message in the syslog every time the syslog-ng service started up: Error resolving user; user='system' He also found why this message was generated. The function resolve_user() in misc.c appears to have a typo. If the incoming user argument points to a non-empty string, resolve_user() just returns NULL. So, the following getpwnam is only called for an empty user string. This looks like a typo. One possible fix below. However, maybe the intention was actually to test for if (!user) instead of if (!*user) ??? Corinna --- src/misc.c.ORIG 2009-03-25 17:01:15.000000000 +0100 +++ src/misc.c 2009-03-25 17:01:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ resolve_user(const char *user, uid_t *ui struct passwd *pw; *uid = 0; - if (*user) + if (!*user) return FALSE; pw = getpwnam(user); -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat