[syslog-ng] Tailing a file

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I need to tail a bunch of application logs that aren't in syslog
format and send them to a remote server. I've configured this:

source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log follow_freq(1)
flags(no-parse)); };
destination remote { tcp("my_syslogserver.com" port(514)); };
log { source(s_tail); destination(remote); };

syslog-ng starts successfully and doesn't complain,  but nothing
happens... no logs appear remotely. I did a tcpdump on the syslog
server and nothing is showing up from this box, so I did an strace on
syslog-ng and didn't see the log files being opened. Running lsof on
those files didn't show anything but the writing program. syslog-ng
just isn't reading the files. Is something wrong with my config? How
might I troubleshoot this? The syslog-ng version is 2.1.4 on CentOS
5.4.

Also, to have syslog tail multiple files, do I just add multiple
entries, like this?

source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log1 follow_freq(1)
flags(no-parse)); };
source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log2 follow_freq(1)
flags(no-parse)); };
source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log3 follow_freq(1)
flags(no-parse)); };

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!