hello, we are currently setting up a new syslog server and switching from a sun fire v880 with syslog-ng and plain files to a new linux based (centos 5.3) syslog server with oracle as logging backend. we do not want to use pipes to write to the database, so we compiled libdbi-dbd-oracle with the oracle instantclient 10.2.0.4-1. syslog-ng is starting up fine (not complaining about the oracle backend), but we do have some problem with the inserts to the database. our trial syslog-ng configuration: destination d_sql_fwint { sql(type(oracle) username("xxx") password("xxx") database("dashb") table("SYSLOG_FWINT") columns("MSG_RCV_TIME varchar2(16)", "HOSTNAME varchar2(256)", "MESSAGE varchar2(2048)") values("$R_DATE", "$HOST", "$MSGONLY") }; when running in debug mode we get the following output: Running SQL query; query='INSERT INTO SYSLOG_FWINT (MSG_RCV_TIME, HOSTNAME, MESSAGE) VALUES (\'Aug 11 21:24:14\', \'gw20\', \'Built outbound TCP connection 144547326429398234 for LAN230:10.20.30.17/43825 (10.20.30.17/43825) to outside:10.10.10.102/80 (10.10.10.102/80)\')' this cant work sind oracle is not accepting \ as escape char, and in this case we do not need an escape at all. the sql syntax is right without the \. since templates are not working when using the sql driver, does anyone has an idea how to fix that? are we missing something? oracle setup is right, tnsnames or works and we can connect to the database with sqlplus. the syslog-ng init script as the environment variables set (ORACLE_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH) thanks for any help -andy