I hope someone can help me out with this problem b.c. I'm butting my head against the wall... I have installed and configured syslog-ng to my (preliminary) satisfaction and have been able to run it from a terminal without any problems. Syslog-ng creates logs and is generally happy. But when I run it, I get one line that says syslog-ng is changing the permissions on /dev/klog. I am running syslog-ng on a Mac OS 10.3.9. When I edit /etc/rc to remove the startup for syslog and enter the folowing: /path/to/syslog-ng -f /path/to/syslog-ng.conf -p /path/to/syslog.pid and reboot the machine spins and does not finish booting. If I boot the machine verbosely I can see that it is hanging while trying to change the permissions for /dev/klog. Any suggestions on what is going wrong?