Hi All, I am trying to use the SyslogAppender. One problem I am having is that the program name is absent, and the PID seems to be "main". I assume this is because the program name is generically set to "main" and the PID is actually omitted. I wanted to confirm this by browsing the source but I am having some trouble understanding the underlying details. In particular, what does this code do? // http://logback.qos.ch/xref/ch/qos/logback/classic/net/SyslogAppender.html#11... layout.getInstanceConverterMap().put("syslogStart", SyslogStartConverter.class.getName()); I am not as familiar with Java idioms as I could be; and I've lost the trail at around "syslogStart". I would like to try working off of SyslogAppenderBase to get a syslog appender that understands UNIX sockets. Is that something the project would welcome? -- Jason Dusek