Frank Ling <frankling77 at yahoo.com> > *.info;*.!warn;authpriv.none;cron.nome;mail.none; -/var/log/messages I guess you alread tried to restart syslog. From the manpage: "You may prefix each entry with the minus ‘‘-’’ sign to omit syncing the file after every logging. . . ." Maybe try to remove the '-' and restart syslog... JD