Hello, i try to run syslog-ng 2.0.0 compiled with eventlog-0.25 and glib-2.12.4 on damnsmalllinux 3.0.1 (knoppix variant based on linux 2.4.26). It is started in a script like this which is called from bootlocal.sh sudo /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng \ --cfgfile=/opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf \ --chroot=/data/var/log \ --user=65534 \ --group=65534 unfortunately it will hang causing mischief, like programs blocking on it, so the boot script does not complete and no login is possible at all. it can only be killed with "-9". The "messages" and "syslog" logfiles look like this, so the chroot etc has worked correctly, the config is valid etc etc: Nov 22 00:19:22 s_all@box syslog-ng[682]: syslog-ng starting up; version='2.0.0' Nov 22 00:19:22 s_all@box kernel: Linux version 2.4.26 (root@Knoppix) (gcc versi on 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 [blaaaaaaaaaaaaah] Nov 22 00:19:22 s_all@box kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann But hereafter nothing happens anymore :-((( If it is started manually later on it seems to work. I tried starting it with --debug, but that didn't say anything at all, although i ran configure with --enable-debug (is that relevant?) I applied the patch from http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg265412.html to prevent blocking on tty's but that didn't help. In the config file i then set use_dns(no) and commented out the usertty() destination, so it is only logging to files. no external programs, pipes etc are used. the only source used is this: source s_all { # message generated by Syslog-NG internal(); # standard Linux log source (this is the default place for the syslog() # function to send logs to) unix-dgram("/dev/log"); unix-dgram("/data/tftpboot/dev/log"); # messages from the kernel file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: ")); # use the next line if you want to receive remote UDP logging messages # (this is equivalent to the "-r" syslogd flag) udp(); tcp(); }; any help would be appreciated!!! regards, -- Heiko@Blume.AG