Will do. Probably tomorrow at the earliest.  Jim Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77@gmail.com> Date:03/14/2014 5:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] odd behavior writing "binary" logfiles - followup data During startup syslog-ng queries the hostname using gethostname. Can you strace syslog-ng and look for this call to see what it returns? We are also resolving this using the dns which is also interesting. Thanks On Mar 13, 2014 7:08 PM, <jrhendri@roadrunner.com> wrote: OK - after much poking around (including testing this on a different host with this morning's latest source) here's what I found I believe that syslog-ng is (for some reason) unable to come up with a correct hostname for the local system. I would really like to know why this is happening