First of all the $(padding) template function might do exactly what you want. https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-o... Also, in conditions you need to use $ to reference values,e.g. it should be condition($min_value ...) https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-o... And finally, there was a bug in numeric operators, which I remember to have fixed in 3.8: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/commit/a84971503a74399dffa6b7bb27809db2... On Jul 13, 2017 05:27, "Jorge Pereira" <jpereiran@gmail.com> wrote: Hi List, I am trying to use the below set() + condition() rewrite { set("$(* $(/ $R_MIN 5) 5)", value("min_slice")); set("0${min_slice}", value("min5"), condition("min_slice" <= "9")); set("${min_slice}", value("min5"), condition("min_slice" >= "10")); # final macro, e.g: www.mytest.com_20170417-1001PM-ng_lua.log.gz set("${YEAR}${MONTH}${DAY}-${HOUR12}${min5}${AMPM}", value("logfmt_file")); set("${YEAR}${MONTH}${DAY}/${HOUR12}${min5}${AMPM}", value("logfmt_dir")); }; But, does not work with R_MIN values around 1 ~ 9 then never execute the second set(... *condition("min_slice" <= "9")*) statement. Has somebody idea? p.s: I am using the syslog-ng 3.7.3 -- Jorge Pereira ____________________________________________________________ __________________ Member info: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/? product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq