Hello All, Hope you are all doing great. I am unable to start syslog-ng service Here is some information: *OS Version: Cent OS 7.3* *I compiled it from a tar ball..* [root@xxxxx system]# syslog-ng -V syslog-ng 3.9.1 Installer-Version: 3.9.1 Revision: Module-Directory: /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng Module-Path: /usr/local/lib/syslog-ng Available-Modules: kvformat,cef,disk-buffer,add-contextual-data,syslogformat,afsocket,affile,afprog,afuser,afamqp,afmongodb,csvparser,confgen,system-source,linux-kmsg-format,basicfuncs,cryptofuncs,dbparser,afstomp,pseudofile,graphite,sdjournal,date Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off Enable-Linux-Caps: off *I manually added this file, this didn't come with install...* [root@xxxxx system]# cat syslog-ng.service [Unit] Description=System Logger Daemon Documentation=man:syslog-ng(8) [Service] Type=notify Sockets=syslog.socket ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p /var/run/syslogd-ng.pid --fd-limit 50000 ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID StandardOutput=null Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=syslog.service [root@sl-sz3-splunk01 system]# pwd /lib/systemd/system *Had parser errors:* [root@xxxxxx ~]# syslog-ng -s Error parsing config, Error compiling template (Unknown template function "format-json") in /usr/local/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/cim/template.conf at line 23, column 32: included from /usr/local/etc/scl.conf line 29, column 1 included from /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf line 8, column 1 template-function "format-cim" "$(format-json --pair @timestamp='${R_ISODATE}' --pair @message='${MSG}' --key .cim.* --shift 5 --key _* --key .* --replace-prefix .=_ --key *.*)\n"; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ syslog-ng documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng mailing list: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng *Moved /usr/local/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/cim and no parser errors.* *But still unable to start.* [root@xxxxx system]# systemctl status syslog-ng.service ● syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2017-05-01 10:46:58 PDT; 7s ago Docs: man:syslog-ng(8) Process: 2170 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F -p /var/run/syslogd-ng.pid --fd-limit 50000 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) Main PID: 2170 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed state. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for syslog-ng.service May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service entered failed state. May 01 10:46:58 sl-sz3-splunk01.slc.ebay.com systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed. What I am I missing? Any help is appreciated. Thank you. -- Thanks, Vijay Amrut.