Re: [syslog-ng] How to make syslog to write to a new file every 10 mins

On 8/3/05, Hermann Tse <htse@yahoo.com> wrote:

I can make it to write to a new file every hour by the following

destination firewall {file ("var/log/firewall/firewall_$YEAR_$MONTH_$DAY_$HOUR")}

but how I can make it to write to a new file every 5 minutes or 10 minutes?

That's kind of a strange feature to ask for. Can you explain what you are trying to achieve? I seldom see more than couple of hundred megabytes in any one file when I use a new file for each hour, and it's a lot easier to write scripts to post-process when I can match filenames with simple regular expressions. Kevin