Syslog-ng experts, I would appreciate help from anyone familiar with this problem, thanks. I have the following on my server and client solaris 9 systems: Syslog-ng 1.6.8 Stunnel-4.10 Libol-0.3.16 Openssl-0.9.7g All compiled and installed successfully on both systems. Errors logged during and after startup of /etc/init.d/syslog-ng On the server (within the messages file): [ID xxxxxx daemon.notice] `port number` connected from `client IP address` [ID xxxxxx daemon.error] SSL accept: Peer suddenly disconnected On the client (within the syslog file): Syslog-ng[2782]: syslog-ng version 1.6.8 starting Syslog-ng[2782]: io.c do_write write() failed (errno 32), broken pipe Syslog-ng[2782]: pkt_buffer::do_flush(): Error flushing data Syslog-ng[2782]: Connection broken to AF_INET(127.0.0.1:514), reopening in 60 seconds On the client (within the messages file): Stunnel[2777]: [ID xxxxxx daemon.notice] stunnel 4.10 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 UCONTEXT+POLL +IPv4 with OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005 stunnel[2777]: [ID xxxxxx daemon.notice] 125 client allowed stunnel[2777]: `port number` connected from 127.0.0.1:33610 rsh[2824]: [ID xxxxxx daemon.notice] connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) - bad port Regards, Mark