Greetings,

I am trying to accomplish something and am requiring some assistance. I have custom logs that write needed output to this directory:

/production/server/20070822/xxxx.log

This log file rotates every day so the next date will be 20070823 and so on.

How can I direct a custom destination file to log remotely that log file to the central server and have it pick it up everyday?

So for example . . . I have a central syslog server that writes all its input to /remote/logs/<date>/<HOST>

On the server sending the remote logs I have this parameter: destination { file(“/production/server/$YYYY$MM$DD/xxxx.log”); };

For some reason I think its not working properly due to the $DATE variables, I tried also using % to no avail. All the necessary logs do log remotely as I wish them to.

Is this the proper way to configure this scenario?

What I want to do is log the custom logging @ xxxx.log to the correct server $hostname on the central server

This would be the idea:

Custom.log -> local syslog-ng -> central-syslog-ng -> /remote/logs/<date>/<HOST>

I am currently logging all the servers logging locally and remotely, but I cannot get syslog-ng to log that custome log file to the remote server.

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks.

Regards, Corey M. Bobb

Data Center Manager

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