i have in /etc/syslog.conf !unbound *.* /var/log/named in my conf file, i have statistics-interval: 3600 and use-syslog: yes i restarted syslogd and started unbound. this was some hours ago. i have nothing in the syslog file # ls -l /var/log/named -rw-r--r-- 1 unbound unbound 0 Apr 11 03:30 /var/log/named randy