We are running the sunfreeware 3.0.1 version of syslog-ng. I'm noticing that the PID is not being set correctly. I saw a bug report but it's not the same as what I'm seeing: https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23 Here is what I am experiencing: # ps -ef | grep syslog root 1662 1 0 07:42:05 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng root 1663 1662 0 07:42:05 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng # cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 1663 Shouldn't the PID be 1662? I've also seen inconsistencies when I use the svcadm commands to disable/enable/refresh the syslog-ng service. Many times it won't stop the service properly and the /var/run/syslog-ng.pid file remains in /var/run. When I try to restart syslog-ng, it won't restart until I run an svcadm disable syslog-ng, remove the /var/run/syslog-ng.pid file, then run svcadm enable syslog-ng. Thanks In Advance for any help.