Hello list. I'm unable to run syslog-ng, whatever the version (I tried 3.3.6 and 3.4.1), on a recent system using systemd (mageia cauldron 64 bits, systemd 195). As soon as I'm launching syslog-ng, systemd and systemd-journal cpu usages reach 80/95%, and systemd fill dmesg log with this kind of message: [ 5962.484250] systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start I tried to disable journald, but i didn't suceed. I also found indication of using the journald socket ( /run/systemd/journal/syslog) instead of /dev/log in syslog-ng configuration, but it doesn't change much. Also, the fedora package for syslog-ng doesn't contains anything special, either in default configuration, or in systemd service unit (excepted a patch to force pid file location). So, I'm a bit lost here... There is a user bug report on this issue: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8944 -- BOFH excuse #223: The lines are all busy (busied out, that is -- why let them in to begin with?).