hi i am configuring a centralised syslog server and when i arrived to the writing into the database there is some thing wrong because when i use a file as destination i see incoming logs when i restart apache2 or mysql in the client "tail - f /" i use syslog -ng 2.0 here is the client *source my_src{ file("/var/log/apache2/error_log" follow_freq(1) ); file("/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log" follow_freq(1) ); }; destination loghost { tcp("192.168.1.69" port(514)); }; log { source(my_src); destination(loghost); };* here is the server * source mysrc{ tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514) keep-alive(yes)); #udp(); }; destination d_mysql { pipe("/tmp/mysql.pipe" template("INSERT INTO logs (host, facility, priority, level, tag, date, time, program, msg) VALUES ( '$HOST', '$FACILITY', '$PRIORITY', '$LEVEL', '$TAG', '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY', '$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC', '$PROGRAM', '$MSG' );\n") template-escape(yes)); }; log { source(mysrc); destination(d_mysql); }; * note that a databes names syslog is already created and contain a table logs; if itry the following command : syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf Error binding socket; addr='AF_INET(0.0.0.0:514)', error='Address already in use (98)' Error initializing source driver; source='mysrc' ps i used to use the server as relai and send by udp using the same port 514 but now everinthing is commented like this # need help