Here is a feature that I have been missing from other syslog programs as well as syslog-ng: I would like to give as an option the format of the logline. It would, for instance, be nice to see the priority and facilty of the logline in the log. This way I would not need to have a lot of logfiles just so that that I afterwards could find out the priority and facility. This would also give me the possibility not to write out the host information, as this information is redundant if I only have a single host or if each host has its own directory of logfiles. Here's an example of such a line: Jul 27 04:53:10 daemon notice proftpd[7423]: FTP session closed. The configuration option could be something like: log_format("%m %d %t %f %l %m"); where %m = month %d = day %t = time %f = facility %l = level %m = message Please send any comments to me as well as the mailinglist. Regards, Björn -- Björn Andersson <bjorn@lifix.fi>