Just had a thought, would a better way be to have two destinations, a file (say /tmp/tmp_alert) and a program destination that mails a user that file? Is there any way to overwrite a file when using a file destination so there are no stale entries in it? John Delisle Corporate Technology Ceridian Canada Ltd 204-975-5909 John_Delisle@ceridian. ca To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Sent by: cc: syslog-ng-admin@lists. Subject: [syslog-ng]Mailing alerts balabit.hu 2001/02/27 04:07 PM Please respond to syslog-ng Has anyone had any success getting syslog-ng to send an alert via email? I'd guess you use the program destination, but I'm unsure how to call it etc. Any ideas? John Delisle Corporate Technology Ceridian Canada Ltd 204-975-5909 _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng