Hi, syslog-ng 1.5.3 released which adds support for user definable log file formats. Here's how to use it: destination my_file { file("/var/log/messages" template("$ISODATE $TAG $FULLHOST $MESSAGE")); }; Documentation is not updated, for a list of available macros check out affile.c, expand_macros() function. I'd appreciate some testing, because I won't have too much time to do it myself. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 url: http://www.balabit.hu/pgpkey.txt