Hi, if you have debug and/or quiet set in your configuration file instead of on the cmd line they are ignore when updating the logger options at start up. --- a/perdition/perdition.old 2010-07-30 06:30:14.693804169 +0200 +++ b/perdition/perdition.c 2010-07-30 06:38:00.988554075 +0200 @@ -371,6 +371,11 @@ /*Parse options*/ options(argc, argv, OPT_FIRST_CALL); + /*Read config file*/ + if(opt.config_file!=NULL){ + config_file_to_opt(opt.config_file); + } + /* Initialise setting of proctitle */ init_set_proc_title(argc, argv, envp); progname = strdup(get_progname(argv[0])); @@ -386,11 +391,6 @@ vanessa_logger_change_max_priority(vanessa_logger_get(), opt.quiet?LOG_ERR:LOG_INFO); - /*Read config file*/ - if(opt.config_file!=NULL){ - config_file_to_opt(opt.config_file); - } - /*Open the dbserver_get library, if we have a library*/ if(getserver_openlib(opt.map_library, opt.map_library_opt, &handle, &dbserver_get, &dbserver_get2)<0){ greetings JS