I'm having some conniptions doing central logging using syslog-ng. Here is the scenario: 1. I generate logs using syslog-ng on local servers and then send them to a log-destination server. Here is an example of some of the conf files on the generating server: more iptables.log.conf source s_var_log_iptables.log { file("/var/log/iptables.log" program-override(var_log_iptables.log) flags(no-parse)); }; log { source(s_var_log_iptables.log); destination(d_midfin_logger_2); }; more midfin_logger_2.conf template t_sdx_tagged { template("$ISODATE $HOST $PROGRAM $MSG "); template_escape(no); }; destination d_midfin_logger_2 { tcp( "10.4.16.161" port(514) template(t_sdx_tagged)); }; What I am trying to do on the log host is to: 1. Segregate at the top level by host. For each such host: * Split the logs into different directories so that for example, I'll have one directory for the audit log from that host, another for iptables etc - so that under each host I'll have /var/log/iptables.log etc. I've been unable to grok the documentation to figure out quite how to do this and would really appreciate some help. thanks vk ==