I've seen this problem before. The messages are coming from the Solaris kernel ring buffer via /dev/log, if you run dmesg you'll see the same messages. I could not find a way to clear the kernel buffer. The only way I've found to filter them is to exclude kern.info from the destination, with a filter like this. # Exclude any kern.info alerts filter f_no_kern_info { not (facility(kern) and level(info)); }; -Ryan On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Martynas Buozis wrote: | I have syslog-ng 1.6.0rc3 compiled with gcc 2.95.2. Every time I stop/start | syslog-ng or send HUP to daemon I get logged by syslog-ng (but not with | native for OS syslogd) same old messages (kernel facility) that comes since | last system boot. Same messages I see when issue dmesg command. This is an | example for first lines that comes out in logged messaged file : | | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 0 impl 0x11 ver | 0x20 clock 296 MHz) | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev cpu1: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 1 impl 0x11 ver | 0x20 clock 296 MHz) | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-33 | [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc. | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev mem = 1048576K (0x40000000) | Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev avail mem = 1039056896 | | This behavious is same on all Solaris 5.6 machines, while no problems with | Solaris 7 and 8 (same binary). Does anyone know how to get rid of these | messages after HUP ?