Hi, On cygwin syslog-ng fails to start with the following in /var/log/syslog-ng.log io.c: bind_unix_socket(): bind failed /dev/log (Bad file descriptor) Error initializing configuration, exiting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks I have a virgin intallation created by syslog-ng-config which creates the following /etc/syslog-ng.conf options { keep_hostname(yes); chain_hostnames(no); owner("system"); group("root"); perm(0664); sync(0); }; source applications { unix-dgram("/dev/log"); internal(); }; source kernel { file("/dev/kmsg", log_prefix("kernel: ")); }; destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; log { source(applications); destination(messages); }; log { source(kernel); destination(messages); };