Hi,

you can use backticks to refer to environment variables. I think these were introduced in 3.4.

tcp(port(`MY_PORT`))

It can also use values defined within the configuration files using the @define pragma:

@define MY_PORT 12345

Or something like that.

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Bazsi

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Peter Flood <info@whywouldwe.com> wrote:

Hi

I'm trying configure syslog-ng, I'd like to be able to use environment
variables for host & port. I've tried the ones that work in the template
formatter but it's not working (not suprisingly). Is there another way?

destination d_my_dest {
     tcp("$(env MY_HOST)" port($(env MY_PORT))  # this doesn't work as
you can't get env vars unless in a template
     tls(peer-verify(required-untrusted) ca_dir("/etc/syslog-ng/cert.d"))
     template(myTemplate));
};

Thanks
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