Balazs, Two more notes about syslog-ng 1.6.x/1.9.x: 1) The default location of the configuration file has changed syslog-ng 1.6.5 -> /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf syslog-ng 1.9.3 -> /etc/syslog-ng.conf See also: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2005-January/006919.html 2) the syslog-ng manpage needs a major revision Several syslog-ng command line short options aren't listed (-e, -F, -g, -s, -u), the chroot option appears only in the Synopsis and none of the long options is documented. Below is the help page outputed by syslog-ng 1.6.5 and 1.9.3. See also: http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/chroot-jail.html (First P.S.) ================================================== === /sbin/syslog-ng -h ================================================== -------------------------------------------------- --- syslog-ng 1.6.5 -------------------------------------------------- Usage: syslog-ng [options] Accept and manage system log messages Options: -s, --syntax-only Only read and parse config file -d, --debug Turn on debugging messages -v, --verbose Be a bit more verbose -F, --foreground Don't fork into background -f <fname>, --cfgfile=<fname> Set config file name, default=/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf -V, --version Display version number (syslog-ng 1.6.5) -p <fname>, --pidfile=<fname> Set pid file name, default=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid -C <dir>, --chroot=<dir> Chroot to directory -u <user>, --user=<user> Switch to user -g <group>, --group=<group> Switch to group -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --- syslog-ng 1.9.3 -------------------------------------------------- Usage: syslog-ng [options] Accept and manage system log messages Options: -s, --syntax-only Only read and parse config file -d, --debug Turn on debugging messages -v, --verbose Be a bit more verbose -e, --stderr Log internal messages to stderr -F, --foreground Don't fork into background -f <fname>, --cfgfile=<fname> Set config file name, default=/etc/syslog-ng.conf -V, --version Display version number (syslog-ng 1.9.3) -p <fname>, --pidfile=<fname> Set pid file name, default=/var/run/syslog-ng.pid -C <dir>, --chroot=<dir> Chroot to directory -u <user>, --user=<user> Switch to user -g <group>, --group=<group> Switch to group -------------------------------------------------- Regards, jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@di.uminho.pt * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *