Hi there I'm wanting to configure syslog-ng so that I have two different filters that are associated with two different destinations - which have the same filename - but different templates. The issue I have is that we have a range of syslog clients, which may or may not have trustworthy clocks. So I default to ignoring their timestamps and use the syslog servers clock, except for the hosts I know to also use NTP. What I want to confirm is that syslog-ng will happily open /var/log/messages ONCE and will parse the following the way I intend? ie #clocks on unix systems (which are named 'blah-unix-number') are always configured correctly filter f_goodclock { host("-unix-") }; #can't trust everything else filter f_badclock { not host("-unix-") }; destination d_badclock_messages { file("/var/log/messages" template("$R_ISODATE $HOST $FACILITY $PRIORITY $MSG\n") }; destination d_goodclock_messages { file("/var/log/messages" template("$S_ISODATE $HOST $FACILITY $PRIORITY $MSG\n") }; log { ... filter(f_badclock); destination(d_badclock_messages);}; log { ... filter(f_goodclock); destination(d_goodclock_messages);}; Should that work as I hope? Thanks! -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1