Hi, I am implementing the real time alert messages in Syslog-ng by using the following script : # TO=wilsonlai@abc.com # while read line # do # hostname=`echo $line | awk '{print $4}'`; # echo $line | /bin/mail -s "Syslog Alert Messages from HOST : $hostname" $TO # done My question is while using readline, sometimes the hostname could not be displayed correctly and give the hostname “Report” as the following event message collected : Nov 5 15:57:19 report server (mssqlserver)[error] 106 Scheduled operations cannot be created. SQL Server Agent is not running. How could it be fixed? Thanks. Regards, Wilson Lai System Engineer IT Dept., SJM Office ( : (853)2978585 Mobile ( : (853)66506709 Email ( : wilsonlai@macausjm.com