For some reason every time logrotate rotates /var/log/messages, my syslog-ng stops working. The permissions look ok.. [office root /var/log] # ls -l mess* -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 6 04:02 messages -rw------- 1 root root 378135 Apr 7 15:15 messages.1 -rw------- 1 root root 908864 Mar 31 15:50 messages.2 -rw------- 1 root root 1795514 Mar 25 14:06 messages.3 -rw------- 1 root root 945373 Mar 19 11:31 messages.4 -rw------- 1 root root 7 Apr 7 14:24 messages.offset Why does logrotate cause syslog-ng to not put any new stuff in /var/log/messages? Chris -- _______________________________________ Dr. Christian Seberino SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax: (619) 553-6521 Email: seberino@spawar.navy.mil _______________________________________