Sorry - It seems that messages from remote hosts are ending up in /var/adm/messages instead of /var/adm/<remote-host>/messages. How to tie the source hostname to the destination filename is the question, I guess. Thanks, Dave --- "Ohrberg, Mick" <Mick.Ohrberg@umb.com> wrote:

David,

What is the question?

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