I recently tried instituting $YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY directory creation into my syslogging, due to problems with logrotation. An hour after I got it to work it dropped a core file and died, indicating that it was aborted. Can anyone see if there is a reason from the following info. PIII 500, 512MB, Redhat Linux 7.0. Syslog-ng 1.4.11, libol-0.2.21 Any help appreciated. Thanks, [root@host ~]# gdb syslog-ng core GNU gdb 5.0 Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... Core was generated by `/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 #0 0x40068dd1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40068dd1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40068baa in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27 #2 0x4006a352 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88 #3 0x400627fa in __assert_fail () at assert.c:60 #4 0x80510d4 in io_iter () #5 0x8049bf1 in main_loop () #6 0x8049f2d in main () #7 0x40057f31 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049d24 <main>, argc=6, ubp_av=0xbffff9d4, init=0x8049204 <_init>, fini=0x80535bc <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e274 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff9cc) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 Brian Seppanen Charter Communications seppy@chartermi.net Advanced Services Engineer 906-228-4226 ext 23 Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. - Polonius