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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My syslog-ng is logging fine from 700 servers but a few times per day it is logging into a wrong folder which is created by the $HOST variable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Normally syslog should use a hostname like host-1.worker.foobar.com but a few times a day it creates a folder names like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4.22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">p6-allrouter?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">p6-localnet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">p6-mc?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">p6-mcastpref<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">p6-mcastpref?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">host-1.worker.foobar.xcom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and other weird names…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It only logs one or two lines and then uses the right folder again. Does anyone have a clue where I have to look for the problem?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Here are the option line from the server and the client:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Client:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">@version: 3.3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">options {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> threaded(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> use_dns(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> use_fqdn(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_size(16384);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_expire(3600);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_expire_failed(10);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> log_msg_size(256000);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> log_fifo_size(100000);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> normalize_hostnames(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> check_hostname(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> bad_hostname("^gconfd$");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> create_dirs(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> owner("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> group("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> perm(0640);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> time_reopen(30);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Server:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">options {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> threaded(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> owner("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> group("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> perm(0660);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dir_owner("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dir_group("root");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dir_perm(0770);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> create_dirs(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> chain_hostnames(no);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> normalize_hostnames(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> check_hostname(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> keep_hostname(no);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> use_fqdn(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache(yes);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_size(16384);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_expire(3600);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> dns_cache_expire_failed(60);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> log_msg_size(256000);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> log_fifo_size(1000000);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Destination example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">destination d_syslog { file("/log/syslog/${R_YEAR}/${R_MONTH}/${R_DAY}/$HOST/$PROGRAM"); };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Daniel Neubacher, Network Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:daniel.neubacher@xing.com"><span style="color:blue">daniel.neubacher@xing.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">XING AG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Gaensemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel. +49 40 419131-28, Fax +49 40 419131-11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Commercial Reg. (Registergericht): Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 98807
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Exec. Board (Vorstand): Dr. Stefan Groß-Selbeck (Vorsitzender), Dr. Thomas Vollmoeller, Ingo Chu, Dr. Helmut Becker, Jens Pape
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Chairman of the Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender): Dr. Neil Sunderland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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