Hello, I would like to get some stats on the number of incoming messages I am receiving on a central log server. I am running syslog-ng 1.6.6, built with libol 0.3.15. From what I can see, I will need to modify libol in order for syslog-ng to count these messages, and tell me at a regular interval. Does this sound right, or am I missing another simple way to do this? assuming I have to modify source, it looks like I can just add a counter to the do_write_str() function in pkt_buffer.c that looks something like this: if (self->queue_size == self->queue_max) { /* fifo full */ pktbuf_dropped_pkts++; ol_string_free(string); return ST_FAIL | ST_OK; } else { struct buffer_node *item; --> pktbuf_recved_pkts++; NEW_SPACE(item); item->packet = string; ol_queue_add_tail(&self->queue, &item->header); if (++self->queue_size == self->queue_max && self->super.writable) (*self->super.writable) = 0; } the "-->" indicates the new line. Pretty much all I did was copy where the "pktbuf_dropped_pkts" was, and added in my variable. The numbers that I get when I run with this don't appear to totally match up with what I expect, but is fairly close. Is this the right place to insert a counter to count total syslog messages recieved over the network (from both TCP and UDP sources). If not, can someone point me in a different direction? thanks! Mike