hello, i am trying to securize the transmission of logs to my server via stunnel. syslog-ng without stunnel goes on but if i run stunnel it returns an error "connecting fd 6 to inetadr 127.0.0.1, port 514" when syslog-ng tries to send logs. i try the way described at http://www.stunnel.org/examples/syslog-ng.html and i also try to change the number of the port to no avail (i don't have firewall which could deny the connection). In fact, i wonder if stunnel may run as a demon because when i make "#stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf" as it's said, "#ps aux" don't show it. Is it normal? so, i think my error of connection comes from the fact that nothing is listening on port 514 (i have try to connect on it via telnet and obtained "connection refused"). how can i check if stunnel is well running? --- configuration of the client: #syslog-ng destination stunnel { tcp("127.0.0.1" port(514)); }; #stunnel client = yes cert = /etc/stunnel/syslog-ng-client.pem CAfile = /etc/stunnel/syslog-ng-server.pem verify = 3 [5140] accept = 127.0.0.1:514 connect = 10.1.1.200:5140 --- any suggestions? thanks, olivier