Greetings, Since I am having trouble with getting syslog-ng 1.4.9a to log external messages, I am attempting to get the next stable version,1.4.12 going. On Solaris 8, I will go to a Development version if there is a consensus that I would fair better. What 1.5 version would be suggested. Disclaimer: Compiling software is not my specialty by any strech of the imagination, but I seem to get by ;-) Platform: SunOS dv-netlog 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 configure seems to do fine ... sudo ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking for bison... no checking for byacc... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E checking for flex... (cached) lex checking for flex... (cached) lex checking for yywrap in -ll... (cached) yes checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy checking whether yytext is a pointer... (cached) no checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for malloc.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for door.h... (cached) yes checking for stropts.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/strlog.h... (cached) yes checking for stdarg.h... (cached) yes checking for working const... (cached) yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached) yes checking for modern utmp... (cached) yes checking size of short... (cached) 2 checking size of int... (cached) 4 checking size of long... (cached) 4 checking for I_CONSLOG... (cached) yes checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes checking for alloca... (cached) yes checking for vprintf... (cached) yes checking for door_create in -ldoor... (cached) yes checking for select... (cached) yes checking for snprintf... (cached) yes checking for vsnprintf... (cached) yes checking for strerror... (cached) yes checking for inet_aton... (cached) no checking for strncpy... (cached) yes checking for getutent... (cached) yes checking for getopt_long... (cached) no checking for strcasecmp... (cached) yes checking for pthread.h... (cached) yes checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... (cached) yes checking whether to enable Sun STREAMS support... yes checking whether to enable Sun door support... yes checking libol version >= 0.2.23... ok creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating src/Makefile creating src/tests/Makefile creating doc/Makefile creating doc/sgml/Makefile creating contrib/Makefile creating syslog-ng.spec creating src/config.h Make seems like a problem and does not complete. kparis@dv-netlog$ sudo make Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' make all-recursive make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' Making all in . make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src -I. -O2 - Wall -I/usr/local/include/libol -D_GNU_SOURCE -c afstreams.c afstreams.c: In function `io_stream_get': afstreams.c:167: too few arguments to function `init_file' make[3]: *** [afstreams.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/install/syslog-ng-1.4.12/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 If any additional info is required, I will be more than happy to provide it if I know how to. Any assistance would be appreciated. Best regards, Ken Paris/ Senior Network Engineer Bluestar Solutions, Inc.