Hi, FreeBSD 10.0 ships with a syslog.conf that contains : ... !-devd *.=debug /var/log/debug.log *.emerg * ... # Uncomment this if you wish to see messages produced by devd # !devd # *.>=info /var/log/devd.log ... The parser fails at "# !devd" because "#!" means something else, but "# !" doesn't. :-) -- Mathieu Arnold