Dear all, I'm trying to configure syslog-ng as relay/proxy server. Seems to be simple, but syslog server recieves encapsulated original syslog messages within outgoing "syslog-relay" messages. Is there any way to configure syslog-ng (relay) to just forward orignal messages to syslog server? Syslog-ng version used: 3.3.9 *syslog-client$* logger "hello from syslog client" on syslog-relay I added the following configuration: ######## sources ############### source s_relay_port { udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); }; ######## destinations ############### destination d_syslog_server { syslog("syslog-server" transport("udp") port(514)); }; ######## logging ############### log { source(s_relay_port); destination(d_syslog_server); }; *syslog-server$* tail -F /var/log/syslog Sep 6 23:53:28 syslog-relay-ip 1 2014-09-06T23:53:28+03:00 syslog-client-ip 1 - - - 2014-09-06T23:53:28+03:00 syslog-client-hostname root - - [meta sequenceId="38"] hello from syslog client With best regards, Michael Yacc