Stupid mistake on my part. Looks like the issue had to do with me running the process as nobody, but nobody couldn't read the syslog-ng.conf file. Since I couldn't write anything out to the console either I decided to stop running syslog-ng as nobody for now. However I've noticed something else, on my Solaris 2.6 systems whenever I HUP or stop and restart syslog-ng it dumps a bunch of old messages from system startup and about filesystems being full into /var/adm/messages. Basically everything that shows up with 'dmesg'. Freaked me out the first time because the date information shows as current time so I was wondering how everything broke all at once. I have no idea how to clear this so it won't show it everything I restart syslog-ng. Any ideas on the cause of this problem? Some buffer somewhere is storing this information and I'm not sure where. Thanks Rob -----Original Message----- From: Glasser, Rob [mailto:rob.glasser@attws.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:31 PM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: [syslog-ng]Stats stop logging? I currently have stats turned on for once an hour. It was running fine until I rotated my log file. I currently have all syslog-ng messages with a match(syslog-ng) filter going to /var/adm/messages. I rotated the logs, and HUP'd the syslog-ng process, it indicated in the new messages file that it was restarted and that is the last message from syslog-ng in that file. syslog-ng is logging other facilities to that file, but not stats, or any other syslog-ng messages for that matter, though I don't know if there would have been any others. Am I missing something or is this a bug? If I completely stop and restart syslog-ng everything starts working again. By the way, I rotate the log file by cat'ing it out to another filename, then cat'ing /dev/null to /var/adm/messages. Thanks Rob Glasser AT&T Wireless WNS Data Operations - Core Services UNIX Systems Administrator