The messages started coming in like this when I upgraded to syslog-ng 1.5.12, but upgraded to 1.5.13 still with no success to fixing this. The characters after the second mention of hostname and before the third mentioned hostname is what this email is about. Has anyone else seen this? Oct 26 00:15:03 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, interface 4/9, changed state to forwarding Oct 26 19:29:07 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/24, state up Oct 26 19:29:10 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 <14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, interface 4/24, changed state to forwarding Oct 26 19:30:55 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 rw<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/24, state up Oct 26 19:30:57 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ü´<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/24, state down Oct 26 19:31:04 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 GET <14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, interface 4/24, changed state to forwarding Oct 26 22:02:56 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet3/7, state down Oct 26 22:03:02 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 árwta<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet3/7, state up Oct 26 22:03:03 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 201, interface 3/7, changed state to forwarding Oct 29 22:35:27 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 GET <14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/10, state down Oct 29 22:35:51 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 dxP"8<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/10, state up Oct 30 08:01:31 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, neteng logout from USER EXEC mode Oct 30 18:43:07 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ÒP"<14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, interface 4/6, changed state to forwarding Oct 30 18:53:13 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 GET <14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/6, state down Oct 30 18:53:17 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 GET <14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/6, state up Oct 30 22:19:40 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 &<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/6, state down Oct 30 23:17:09 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/1, state down Oct 30 23:17:14 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 à<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/1, state up Oct 30 23:17:16 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, interface 4/2, changed state to forwarding Oct 31 00:57:40 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 00:56<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/9, state down Oct 31 16:38:51 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 FDE<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/6, state down Oct 31 16:38:57 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 árwta<14>smf-dist-01, Interface ethernet4/6, state up Oct 31 16:38:59 smf-dist-01/smf-dist-01 ´<14>smf-dist-01, Bridge topology change, vlan 200, I'm running syslog-ng 1.5.13 with libol-0.3.1 under Solaris 8 (SPARC). These messages are being reported from a Foundry NetIron 800 (L3 switches). Thanks, Nicholas Berry Systems Engineer RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc. 2710 Gateway Oaks Dr., Suite 300 South Sacramento, CA 95833 Phone: 916.286.4048 Fax: 916.921.4148 E-mail: nberry@ragingwire.com www.ragingwire.com