hi everybody, we use syslog-ng in a large cluster of some online services. however we do encounter problems with the pid-file handling. i start syslog-ng as syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid --cfgfile=/usr/global/etc/syslog-ng.conf and its running fine. yesterday i did: # ps auxw| grep syslog-ng root 5366 ...syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid... # cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 5366 today i did: # ps auxw| grep syslog-ng root 18357 ...syslog-ng --pidfile=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid... # cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 5366 so for some mysterious reasons a) syslog-ng restarts (maybe some cron job to logrotate the systems syslog) b) the pid in /var/run/syslog-ng.pid does not get updated syslog-ng is running here on Tru64 4.0 alpha. martin