Re: [syslog-ng]$DAY not working in filenames macros in 1.6.x as it did in 1.5.x

3 Feb 2005

      Andrew Fort wrote:

Oops - I knew I should've tried this before the original post.
...
However, using 1.6.x (I've not tested 1.6.6, to be sure, only 1.6.4 and 
1.6.5) on both Solaris and Linux, using the exact same config (i.e., 
when I upgraded, for example), using this destination:
destination d_local {
        file("/var/log/LOCAL/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY\_$HOST"
        template("$ISODATE [$HOST] <$FACILITY> $MSG\n")
        template_escape(no)
        perm(0660)
        dir_perm(0770)
        create_dirs(yes));
};
I get this:
/var/log/LOCAL/mel1/2005/02/200502mel1
So $DAY is not expanding.  Same thing occurs when I use
file("/var/log/LOCAL/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY_$HOST"
Is this a problem with $DAY, the _, or something else?
I changed the file line to:
     file("/var/log/LOCAL/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOST-$PROGRAM"

And now I get what I am looking for,

e.g.

/var/log/LOCAL/mel1/2005/02/20050203-mel1-syslog-ng

So, what's special about the underscore? (i'd prefer to use an 
underscore if I could... :).

Cheers,
andrew