Hi, I recently converted our RedHat EL servers (Release 3 Update 6) form the sysklog package to syslog-ng. On some of the servers syslog-ng appears to be occasionally hanging, i.e. messages stop getting written to the various log files. This also has a knock on effect of stopping logins, cron jobs hanging, etc, presumably because they are waiting to write to a log file. I read in the archives that this can be caused by something else using /dev/log but there's no other syslogd or minilogd processes running and lsof gives the following: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME syslog-ng 1384 root 5u unix 0xf778c880 1703 /dev/log syslog-ng 1384 root 6u unix 0xf777e8c0 1715 /dev/log I'm using the RedHat conf file bundled in the contribs directory that comes with the source code. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks Tony ***************************************************** You can find us at www.voca.com ***************************************************** This communication is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the addressee only. You should not disclose its contents to any other person. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender named above immediately. Registered in England, No 1023742, Registered Office: Voca Limited Drake House, Three Rivers Court, Homestead Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 1FX This message has been checked for all email viruses by MessageLabs.