In case anyone else happens across this problem, I was finally able to resolve it. Generally speaking, we disable rshd during hardening. In this event, it looks like a couple fell through the cracks. Once I disabled rshd (the 'shell' lines) and did a kill -HUP on inetd, syslog-ng started right up. Original post --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been migrating all of our Solaris 9 servers to syslog-ng. While everything is working fine on most of them, two of them are displaying the following problem: When I attempt to start syslog-ng, it fails as follows: # /etc/init.d/syslog start syslog-ng service starting. Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:514)', error='Address already in use (125)' Error initializing source driver; source='inputs' # Any idea how to resolve this? I may need a direct response, as I have not received anything from the list yet (just signed up before writing this). o0yeboy0o@yahoo.com Thanks, Thomas