Hi, We are currently using syslog-ng (syslog-ng 1.6.0rc4) to log for local log messages on a device. We have the following in the config file to store local auth messages. destination local_auth { file("/var/log/local/auth.$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"); }; We have the following in the config file to store local error messages. destination local_err { file("/var/log/local/errors.$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"); }; The problem I have is that sometimes for a day there are no error or auth messages and because of this the log file is not generated, a log file is only created if there is log data to put into it. I require syslog-ng to force the creation of a log file for the day even if it is empty. I have also just tried the stats(600) option in the configuration and stopped and started the dameon and this does not write any information to a log file - therefore no errors log file is created for the day. Does anyone know if this can be done on syslog-ng ??? Thanks
Gerhard Eggart