Hello, I am trying to "read" a log stream from interface eth0 and to save it in a file (/var/log/messages_tcp). I am newbie on the use of syslog-ng but I try to learn reading the official manual and a lot of configuration examples. Although, I have try a lot of different configurations, the result is always the same : Syslog-ng cannot read the streaming data. I hope that you can help me. That's the version of syslog-ng that I use: *~# /usr/local/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng -V syslog-ng 3.2.4 Installer-Version: 3.2.4 Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit //var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.2#master#ef7b91e4a1b1f9628c66138b4ae83de7e4c697c6 Compile-Date: Sep 6 2012 14:36:19 Enable-Threads: off Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: on Enable-TCP-Wrapper: off Enable-SSL: on Enable-SQL: off Enable-Linux-Caps: on Enable-Pcre: on Enable-Pacct: off* There is an incoming log stream in eth0 (udp), as you can see next : *~# tcpdump -i eth0 udp 'port 514' -v tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 06:05:58.669992 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 254, id 20209, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 82) 172.29.1.6.syslog-ng > 172.30.6.70.syslog-ng: SYSLOG, length: 54 Facility local4 (20), Severity debug (7) Msg: %ASA-7-609001: Built local-host WAN:172.30.254.4\0x0a 06:05:58.670134 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 254, id 52, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 85) 172.29.1.6.syslog-ng > 172.30.6.70.syslog-ng: SYSLOG, length: 57 Facility local4 (20), Severity debug (7) Msg: %ASA-7-609001: Built local-host outside:172.26.10.4\0x0a ………..* The syslog-ng.conf that I use is the following: * @version: 3.2 options { chain_hostnames(off); long_hostnames(off); use_dns(no); # We don't want DNS names, IP's only. flush_lines(0); stats_freq(43200); time_reopen(10); }; source s_network { # tcp(ip("172.30.6.70") port(514)); # udp(ip("172.30.6.70") port(514)); # syslog( # flags(no-multi-line) # ip(172.30.6.70) # keep-alive(yes) # keep_hostname(yes) # transport(udp) # TLS Options # tls() # ); tcp(); udp(); }; destination d_tcp { file("/var/log/messages_tcp" owner("root") group("adm") perm(0640)); }; log { source(s_network); destination(d_tcp); }; * When I start syslog-ng in debug mode (syslog-ng -Fevd) the results are the followings: *~# /usr/local/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng -Fevdt Trying to open module; module='syslogformat', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libsyslogformat.so' Trying to open module; module='basicfuncs', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libbasicfuncs.so' Trying to open module; module='afsocket', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libafsocket.so' Trying to open module; module='affile', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libaffile.so' Trying to open module; module='afprog', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libafprog.so' Trying to open module; module='afuser', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libafuser.so' Trying to open module; module='dbparser', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libdbparser.so' Trying to open module; module='csvparser', filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng-3.2.4/lib/syslog-ng/libcsvparser.so' Running application hooks; hook='1' Running application hooks; hook='3' syslog-ng starting up; version='3.2.4' ^CTermination requested via signal, terminating; syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.2.4' Closing log transport fd; fd='6' Running application hooks; hook='4'* As you can see there is no "Incoming log entry..:" line. I pressed Ctrl+C for the termination of program. Also listening to the network interface seems to be right: *~# netstat -tanpu | grep syslog tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:514 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 25950/syslog-ng udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:514 0.0.0.0:* 25950/syslog-ng * Please, can anyone help me with this problem? I don't know what could be blocking the packets, if it is because of the OS or because of syslog-ng configuration.What could it be wrong? I am waiting for your response. PS. Sorry for my "bad" English. Thanks is advance, Alex