Thank you so much. Its working now. I referred following link. Here “ip” is present. So got confused. https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-g... From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Várady, László Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 6:50 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Error while configuring destination for network Hi, It's a bit tricky on the destination side, you don't need the "ip" option: https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-g... @version:3.7 @include "scl.conf" source s_local { internal(); }; destination d_network { syslog("135.254.163.151" transport("tcp")); }; destination d_local { file("/var/log/messagesgiri"); }; log { source(s_local); destination(d_local); destination(d_network); }; Regards, László Várady On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Girish Kumar <girish.kumar@al-enterprise.com<mailto:girish.kumar@al-enterprise.com>> wrote: Hi All, In the conf file I have added destination as network. But I am getting following error while spawning the syslog-ng . Could you please help me on this [root@localhost vsabarin]# /sbin/syslog-ng Error parsing afsocket, syntax error, unexpected KW_IP, expecting LL_IDENTIFIER or LL_STRING in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf at line 12, column 32: destination d_network { syslog(ip("135.254.163.151") transport("tcp")); }; My syslog-ng.conf file @version:3.7 @include "scl.conf" source s_local { internal(); }; destination d_network { syslog(ip("135.254.163.151") transport("tcp")); }; destination d_local { file("/var/log/messagesgiri"); }; log { source(s_local); destination(d_local); destination d_network); }; Regards, Girish ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq