Hi, I have released $SUBJ, though did not announce them widely, only on this list. I worked on parsing and evaluating filter statements. The new syntax will be similar to function calls: filter f_messages { priority(info) and not facility(authpriv) }; you can use parentheses and several and/or operators. I hope this will make syslog-ng easier to use and configure. The only issue left is how to deal with priorities. Original syslogd accepts a message above or equal to the a specific priority (and not only the specific priority). I may add an optional parameter to priority() so that the relation could also be specified: priority(info, GE) which would mean that priorities of info and above are forwarded. I am going out the next two days, but on returning I plan to continue working on syslog-ng. -- Bazsi