hi I am trying to get Mariadb to log to syslog - this is for log consolidation etc. I am using Maria in a docker container from docker hub. Other things from the container are successfully logging to syslog on my logging server but Maria isn't. If I add the word 'syslog' to a [mysqld_safe] section the configuration is not read (as reported by mysqld --print-defaults). The container init script calls mysqld rather than mysqld_safe If I change the init script to call mysqld_safe instead of mysqld, syslog is set as reported by --print-defaults however the container continually crashes after restart. If I add the word 'syslog' to [mysqld] the configuration is read however after restart, mariadb continually crashes - at least the container does. I have checked for log-error statements, when checking global vars log_error is empty and it is not reported on the print-defaults output. If I setup to log to a file, this works fine. The container is running Ubuntu 18.04 Mariadb version is 10.3.10 rsyslog version is kinetic 8.32.0 Not sure what you want to see to help me, advise and I will do my best to give it to you. Cheers paul