first thing: you should remove bsdi from this list "syslog-ng is a syslogd replacement for unix and unix-like systems. It has been tested on Solaris, BSDi and Linux, and were found to run reliably. " -- main web page ok....i've been doing a bit of work on syslog-ng for bsdi here's what i've done so far and the problems i'm having. located a strptime.c via google gcc -c strptime.c then in the makefile added strptime.o to syslog_ng_OBJECTS viola...syslog-ng compiles somewhat ok (lots of "MIN redefined") now i'm running into an odd error when i run syslog-ng with no switches, it hangs, kdump below. when i run it with -d, it coredumps with SIGSEGV more kdump below (gdb) bt (of syslog-ng -dv) #0 0x480c6737 in __inet_addr () #1 0x804fd23 in __inet_aton (cp=0x8047c34 "207.106.42.9", addr=0x7848030) at utils.c:56 #2 0x480c673f in __inet_addr () #3 0x804fd23 in __inet_aton (cp=0x8047c34 "207.106.42.9", addr=0x7848058) a few thousand? lines of this to fix this, i've tried uncommenting the "#undef HAVE_INET_NTOA" in config.h to no effect. kdump for syslog-ng (no switches) 20475 syslog-ng CALL ioctl(0x3,TIOCGETA,0x8047790) 20475 syslog-ng RET ioctl -1 errno 25 Inappropriate ioctl for device 20475 syslog-ng CALL close(0x3) 20475 syslog-ng RET close 0 20475 syslog-ng CALL fork 20475 syslog-ng RET fork 20476/0x4ffc 20475 syslog-ng CALL sigaction(0xf,0x8047d14,0x8047d08) 20475 syslog-ng RET sigaction 0 20475 syslog-ng CALL sigprocmask(0x1,0) 20475 syslog-ng RET sigprocmask 0 20475 syslog-ng CALL sigsuspend(0) kdump for syslog-ng -dv 20469 syslog-ng GIO fd 2 wrote 33 bytes "io.c: Preparing fd 3 for reading " 20469 syslog-ng RET write 33/0x21 20469 syslog-ng CALL socket(0x2,0x2,0x11) 20469 syslog-ng RET socket 4 20469 syslog-ng CALL fcntl(0x4,0x3,0x4) 20469 syslog-ng RET fcntl 2 20469 syslog-ng CALL fcntl(0x4,0x4,0x6) 20469 syslog-ng RET fcntl 0 20469 syslog-ng CALL fcntl(0x4,0x2,0x1) 20469 syslog-ng RET fcntl 0 20469 syslog-ng PSIG SIGsegv SIG_DFL 20469 syslog-ng NAMI "syslog-ng.core"