Hi, The patch below hopefully fixes the "Type Error" problems reported in 1.5.12. I'd appreciate feedback whether it really fixes the bug. (if it does, expect a new version shortly) Thanks for the cooperation for those who helped me to track this issue. diff -urN syslog-ng-1.5.12/src/affile.c syslog-ng-1.5.12-fixed/src/affile.c --- syslog-ng-1.5.12/src/affile.c Sat Oct 20 15:03:59 2001 +++ syslog-ng-1.5.12-fixed/src/affile.c Mon Oct 22 21:22:18 2001 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ struct resource_node *res; lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END); - self->src = io_read(make_io_fd(cfg->backend, fd, self->name), + self->src = io_read(make_io_fd(cfg->backend, fd, ol_string_use(self->name)), make_log_reader(0, c), NULL); res = REMEMBER_RESOURCE(cfg->resources, &self->src->super.super); @@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ self->owner->flags & AFFILE_CREATE_DIRS, &fd)) { self->dest = - io_write(make_io_fd(cfg->backend, fd, self->expanded_fname), + io_write(make_io_fd(cfg->backend, fd, ol_string_use(self->expanded_fname)), make_pkt_buffer_ext(self->owner->sync_freq, MAX(self->owner->super.log_fifo_size + 1, self->owner->sync_freq)), -- Bazsi