Hi, Recently a large part of syslog-ng problem reports were related to SELinux not allowing access to some custom network ports or directories. You can read the basics of customizing SELinux (and Firewalld) rules for your environment in my latest blog: https://www.balabit.com/blog/using-syslog-ng-with-selinux-in-enforcing-mode/ Bye, Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik