Tai Chi is great for focussing the mind, except today I was still focussed on why my syslogger wasn't logging anything and not concentrating on my 'grasp sparrow's tail'. Then I remembered the syslogger's main gotcha - spaces. Solaris' syslog daemon has trouble parsing config lines with space delimiting fields. Replace with tabs and it all works fine. Stupid really, it's the sort of thing that could make a real mess of your 'wave hands like clouds' if you couldn't figure it out.