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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m a noobie and just about beginning to try out syslog-ng at my company. I have the following configuration on the client:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>source s_apache {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> file("/apps/log/apache/store-dev03/*"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> program_override("apache")<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> flags(no-parse)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> );<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>destination d_remote {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> syslog("10.5.76.125" transport("tcp") port(514)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal># template("${MSGONLY}") <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> );<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>log {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> source(s_apache);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> destination(d_remote);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And something like this on the server side:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>source s_network {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> syslog(ip(0.0.0.0)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> port(514) transport("tcp") );<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>destination d_local {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> file("/apps/log/syslong-ng/$PROGRAM/$HOST/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY.log"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> # ignore the use of template below, I just wanted to prove the server side could<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> # see the value of the filepath from the client<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> template("${.SDATA.file@18372.4.name} - ${MSGONLY}\n")<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> );<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>log {<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> source(s_network);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> destination(d_local);<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My ("${.SDATA.file@18372.4.name} value can be something like this: ‘/apps/log/apache/store-dev03/access.log’. What I want to be able to do is to parse that path. That is to discard the begining of the path, /apps/log/apache. Get the rest of the value, especially the file name (access.log) to be used to construct destination path.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this possible? Thank you for your kind help. <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>