Hello, I'm currently running Fedora 6. I installed eventlog-0.2.6+20070115 and syslog-ng-2.0.1+20070115 and started syslog-ng and all goes well. Then if I do a logger command: logger [test:test123] this works but if I run logger [status:test123] syslog-ng goes onto a loop and fills up my disk. This only happens when resolv.conf is configured but the DNS server not up. I can reproduce it by setting the resolv.conf to: domain maxsp.com #nameserver 192.168.1.53 #nameserver 63.198.110.86 And you can see in the syslog-ng.conf where I'm using the Status in the filter. ]# cat syslog-ng.conf options { sync (0); time_reopen (10); log_fifo_size (10000); long_hostnames (on); use_dns (no); use_fqdn (yes); create_dirs (no); keep_hostname (yes); }; # Input source for syslog source src { internal(); udp(); tcp(); unix-stream("/dev/log"); # file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: ")); }; # Standard Unix syslog bucketes destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); }; destination d_mesg { file("/var/log/messages"); }; destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); }; destination d_mail { file("/var/log/maillog"); }; destination d_spol { file("/var/log/spooler"); }; destination d_boot { file("/var/log/boot.log"); }; destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron"); }; destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); }; filter f_filter1 { facility(kern); }; filter f_filter2 { level(info) and not (facility(mail) or facility(authpriv) or facility(cron)); }; filter f_filter3 { facility(authpriv); }; filter f_filter4 { facility(mail); }; filter f_filter5 { level(emerg); }; filter f_filter6 { facility(uucp) or (facility(news) and level(crit)); }; filter f_filter7 { facility(local7); }; filter f_filter8 { facility(cron); }; #log { source(src); filter(f_filter1); destination(d_cons); }; #log { source(src); filter(f_filter2); destination(d_mesg); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter3); destination(d_auth); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter4); destination(d_mail); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter5); destination(d_mlal); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter6); destination(d_spol); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter7); destination(d_boot); }; log { source(src); filter(f_filter8); destination(d_cron); }; # Filter for useful log data before sending upstream filter f_apps { match("[Application:Activescan]") or match("[Application:Expert]") or match("[Application:BCAmonitor]") ; }; filter f_alert_message { match("Type:High") or match("Type:Medium") or match("\\[Status:") or match("\\[status:") or match("\\[zippy:") ; }; # Full log messages file destination std { file("/var/log/messages" owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes) ); }; log { source(src); destination(std); }; ## set up logging to loghost destination loghost { tcp("logsink.maxsp.com" port(514)); }; # send to loghost log { source(src); filter(f_apps); filter(f_alert_message); destination(loghost); }; Thanks, Jeff