Hi John, thanks very much for your replay! As I told in my previous e-mail I'm trying to use a Linux machine as loghost for IBM AIX and SUN Solaris 7 machines. In the AIX machine I tryed to launch the syslogd with this two examples of syslog.conf files: (See attached file: syslog.conf.txt)(See attached file: syslog.conf) The commad to invoke the syslog daemon is:

nohup /usr/sbin/syslogd -d -f /<path>/syslog.conf

but the nohup.out file that contains the response tells me that the syslogd can't resolve " * " as all the priority names and no messages appear in /var/log of the Linux machine. Take a look for example at this row: auth.debug;user.debug;daemon.none @cdslog where the cdslog is the name of the log host and ws2 (in the file syslog.conf) is the name of the IBM machine. If I want to write the messages in a particular file in the log host ( example /var/log/messages) where should I have to specify this path (cause I thik that @cdslog isn't enough and I can't see where messages are written)? If I think at using the syslog-ng, the advantage is great or the syslogd is enough for my applications? Thanks in advance Best Regards Franco *.* @192.168.41.15 # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. #Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* /var/log/maillog # Log all ssh1 traffic local1.info /var/log/sshdlog # Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another # machine. *.emerg * # Save mail and news errors of level err and higher in a # special file. uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler