I hoping that someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I have the following configuration in my syslog-ng.conf file but the program referenced in d_mysql_prog is never executed (I've tried a simple version that just outputs to a file as well). Note the file gets all the messages properly and I've cut out the non-relevant sections of the config. source src { pipe("/proc/kmsg"); unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); }; source net { udp(ip("0.0.0.0") port(514)); }; destination d_file { file ("/tmp/syslog"); }; destination d_mysql_prog { program ("/root/syslog2.pl"); }; log { source(net);destination(d_mysql_prog); }; log { source(src);destination(d_mysql_prog); }; log { source(src);destination(d_file); }; log { source(net);destination(d_file); }; Thanks, Chris