i never ran into that problem on debian, i did have have it working to log to mysql,. but i was using mysql / pipe to enter stuff in the table, but the mysql client would die, for some unknow reason, that is why i am looking at a differnet way to set it up, and i need advise/help thanks michael www.vermeer.org -----Original Message----- From: AGehring@bis.adp.com Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:28 PM To: "'syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu'" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: RE: [syslog-ng]syslog-ng I don't see how adding the ability for syslog ng to write to a database (SQL based) is any more different/difficult the allowing it to write to a file... We've modified it to natively write to Sybase... The problem with external programs, at least in our case, was that we would end up having 20+ process running to get the data where we needed it.... Andrew