I require to log syslogs into a mysql database. I used syslog-ng (downloaded the rpm for syslog-ng - ver 1.6 and libol from rpmseek.com and installed it) and used the information available in the site http://www.vermeer.org/display_doc.php?doc_id=1 for this purpose. As given in this website (1) First I made the pipe file using the following command # mkfifo /tmp/mysql.pipe (2) Then I used the following command to log into mysql (first tried with local logging) # mysql -u root --password=passwd syslog < /tmp/mysql.pipe This command gets stuck But when syslog-ng is stopped and started it logs and the contenets in /tmp/mysql.pipe gets loaded into the database table. The following commands were used to stop and start syslog-ng /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop # Stop syslog-ng /etc/ini.d/syslog-ng start # Start syslog-ng (3) The site states about an initialization script like this one which needs to be started at start up. The script given is provided below. #!/bin/bash if [ -e /tmp/mysql.pipe ]; then while [ -e /tmp/mysql.pipe ] do mysql -u theuserid --password=thepassword syslogdb < /tmp/mysql.pipe done else mkfifo /tmp/mysql.pipe fi Where should I put this script and how to start it up at initialization? Could you explain the working pricipal of this script?