Hello, I am experiencing problems with syslog-ng OSE 3.5.1 reading the configuration file and accepting its global options. I had problems with 2 global options specified in my syslog-ng.conf file: @version: 3.5 @include "scl.conf" options { flush_lines(0); time_reopen(10); log_fifo_size(1000); use_dns(no); use_fqdn(yes); keep_hostname(no); keep_timestamp(yes); chain_hostnames(no); perm(0640); owner("root"); group("root"); create_dirs(yes); dir_perm(0750); dir_owner("root"); dir_group("root"); }; source s_cache { file("/path/to/some/file.txt", flags(no-parse)); }; destination d_network { syslog("192.168.1.10" port(1901) transport("tcp")); }; log { source(s_cache); destination(d_network); }; The time_reopen and log_fifo_size seem to be forced to zero if I try to specify alternate values for them as shown above. If I do not include them in the configuration file, syslog-ng uses their default values time_reopen=60 and log_fifo_size=10000. Does anybody know what may be causing this problem? The log_fifo_size default value is OK but I need a faster time_reopen window and I cannot find a way to specify it. If I do, syslog-ng forces it to time_reopen=0. I can tell because I get message like this when it is trying to reconnect: Syslog connection failed; fd='8', server='AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)', error='Connection refused (146)', time_reopen='0' If I remove the time_reopen(10) global option from the syslog-ng.conf file, then I get the following message when syslog-ng it is trying to reconnect: Syslog connection failed; fd='8', server='AF_INET(192.168.1.10:1901)', error='Connection refused (146)', time_reopen='60' Please let me know if you have any questions for me. Thank you for your help.