Hey, While this doesn't cause any noticeable disfunction, I keep getting a message from syslog-ng which says: syslog-ng[14172]: Changing permissions on special file /dev/sysmsg I understand this is the consequence of the owner/group/perm options of the following block: destination df_dev_sysmsg { file("/dev/sysmsg" perm(0777) owner(root) group(other) template("$DATE $HOST $MSG\n")); }; On Solaris 8, /dev/sysmsg is a symlink t othe real sysmsg device, here's an output of ls -l /dev/sysmsg: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 33 Dec 17 2002 /dev/sysmsg -> ../devices/pseudo/sysmsg@0:sysmsg And here is ls -l /devices/pseudo/sysmsg\@0\:sysmsg: crwxrwxrwx 1 root other 97, 0 Mar 2 11:26 /devices/pseudo/sysmsg@0:sysmsg As you see, the permissions of /dev/sysmsg and of /devices/pseudo/sysmsg@0:sysmsg match the mask I set, and I wonder how can I can tell syslog-ng not to touch the permission of this "file". Thanks for any hint, Regards, -- Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>