This might be a basic question but I am missing something. I believe I am successfully sending the Netscreen firewall messages to a remote syslog server (running syslog-ng) as I have them stored in an appropriate log file. What I want to do now is pipe this file to a MySQL database so that I can retrieve the data later for analysis and to post to a web interface. I have even tried the simple syslong-ng.conf example below (unrelated to my Netscreen logs) in an attempt to pipe data. destination database { pipe("/tmp/mysql.pipe" template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, date, time, program, msg) VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY','$LEVEL', '$TAG', '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY','$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC', '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n") template-escape(yes)); }; Nothing ever appears in the mysql.pipe file. Also I need advice on what fields I should be extrapolating out of the log for use in the Database; I realize the fields above are not the ones I would need from my Netscreen log but any information or leads on how to use the Netscreen logs correctly with a database would be awesome. Thanks for any and all help! It is greatly appreciated! Brandon -- Brandon Rodak Web Services Computer Marketing Corporation http://www.cmcflex.com