Makes sense, and it does work as intended. I also managed to stumble across the “$LOGHOST” macro as well, that does exactly the same thing.

Unfortunately I was digging through the docs in the wrong place. “hostname” never found it… :(

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> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> It is done only once when the configuration file is evaluated.
> I think it is obvious that the rewrite is done every time :-)

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