Hi All, Such functionality already exists for pipe() and file() destination types so extending this to the program() destination type I imagine would not be too difficult nor time consuming. The following scenarios would benefit from this: - move logic to e-mail type notifications (and othe custom scripts) back into syslog-ng.conf - adds flexibility of formating sql statements and passing the sql statements directly into the database (having the near real time advantages of using pipe(), but having a reliability closer to a db buffer file as the process in not likely to die unexpectedly). tia, Darren Mackay