[syslog-ng]$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY generates always 2002/12/31

[Serge Torop]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:36:05PM +0100, Piotr Woliński wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have PLD Linux kernel 2.4.20 and syslog-ng-1.6.0-0.rc3.2
> > I put into into syslog-ng.conf lines (for test purpose):
> > 
> > source net      { udp(); };
> > destination hosts {
> >     file("/var/log/hosts/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY"
> >         owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700)
> >     create_dirs(yes)); };
> > log {source(net); destination(hosts); };
> > 
> > 
> > Now i can see directiories like that:
> > /var/log/hosts/localhost/2003/2003/12/01
> > /var/log/hosts/localhost/2003/2003/12/02
> > that's OK.
> > 
> > But also:
> > /var/log/hosts/localhost/2002/12/31
> 
> as the year is not included in incoming messages syslog-ng tries to guess a
> year based on current time and the received time. as there was a change in
> this area in 1.6.0rc4 try that version and check whether it fixes your
> problem.

I'm try syslog-ng 1.6.0rc4:

# /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -V
syslog-ng 1.6.0rc4


The problem remained.

My conf:

destination d_daemons { file("/var/log/daemons/daemons-info.$MONTH.$YEAR"); };


# ls -1 /var/log/daemons

daemons-info.10.2003
daemons-info.11.2003
daemons-info.12.2003 - !!


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Serge P. Torop
St.Petersburg, Russia