Hi all, I'm new here. I love syslog-ng: it's well written and documented and each time I need some new feature, I dig up the documentation and I find it's already implemented! Like many others, I use macros in file destinations (say, "/var/log/cron.${YEAR}${MONTH}"), but I also want to maintain a persistent symlink to the current logfile (that would be something like "/var/log/cron") in order to have "easier" access if I'm grepping for something manually. I couldn't find this feature in syslog-ng, so I wrote the code myself; in the configuration file, it looks like this: destination d_file_cron { file("/var/log/cron.${YEAR}${MONTH}" symlink_as("/var/log/cron")); }; It works for me on my Slackware boxes. I'm sharing the patch I put together, hoping that it may be useful to others and perhaps even considered for inclusion in mainstream. From a functional perspective, the "symlink_as" file inherits both "create-dirs" and file ownership from its file destination (permissions are not applicable to symlinks, at least on linux). Patch applies cleanly to latest production release (3.33). I tried to keep the original coding style for easier review (admittedly, the code could have gone into the function that opens the file destination, but I didn't want to change too much). Thanks for the good work and happy logging! Andrea.