Hi, first post. Red Hat RHAS3 update 4. Saturday I downloaded libol 0.3.16 and syslog-ng 1.6.8 tarballs, saw immediately that there were rpm spec files and made rpms (not without an initial couple of barfs about missing MySQL stuff), which I installed. Took me Sunday and Monday till 10:00 am to get my head round it, but it's fantastic, thanks a lot:) So then I downloaded 1.9.5 and eventlog-0.2.3+20050116+1856. There were no rpm spec files, so I wrote my own (half a morning on the basis of the above ones, anyone who wants them's welcome to them), installed them and syslog-ng 1.9.5 crashed without trace. Used strace and couldn't for the life of me see what was happening. I couldn't be bothered to begin with gdb and back traces, so I put the good rpm back, all's back to normal. If anyone wants me to go ahead with debugging, I will (dilettantishly to say the least, I'm not a C programmer), but would rather not - 1.6.8 works fine for me. Just thought I'd let people know :) Best, --Tonni -- mail: tonye@billy.demon.nl http://www.billy.demon.nl