Since my logs were being filled with heartbeat debug messages (1 each minute), I just commented the line and recompiled. Here is the patch: --- hb.c.old 2003-11-30 20:47:34.000000000 +0100 +++ hb.c 2003-11-30 20:47:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ // Send the heartbeat write(sockfd, buf, strlen(buf)); - hblog(LOG_DEBUG, "[HB] %s\n", buf); +// hblog(LOG_DEBUG, "[HB] %s\n", buf); return 0; } Trivial stuff and all other warning/error messages still are generated. I thought this could be useful to someone else. Bye.