Since you're adding a configuration option to syslog-ng.conf, you'll need to reload the process. After you reload/restart, fresh directories will be created. If I were you though, i would stop the syslog-ng process, do a for loop to rename all CAPITAL-HOSTNAME files/folders to lower-case, and then start syslog-ng again so that it will resume logging to files where it left off. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Harvey <adam@smithandtinker.com> wrote:
Will that rename them on service reload or will it start a fresh folder with hostname?
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Tim Boyer Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:42 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Upper case $HOST
Balazs Scheidler wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:05 -0500, Tim Boyer wrote:
I'm running syslog-ng 3.03 on a RHEL5 system, sending logs to various files like so:
# global log files destination deservers { file("/var/log/$HOST.log" owner(root) group(hobbit) perm(0640)); };
It's working fine on the Linux boxes. But I'm using Adiscon's EventLog on my Windows machines, and the $HOST name on them are coming up in all caps.
[root@buran log]# ls -la /var/log/*.log
... -rw-r----- 1 root hobbit 282 Nov 4 14:37 /var/log/KANTECH.log -rw-r----- 1 root hobbit 535181 Nov 4 14:24 /var/log/PLCDATA.log
Where's this $HOST macro get its data from? The DNS entry is lower case; the full computer name on the Windows box is lower case. I don't see where the upper is coming from, unless it's one of those weird Windows-to-Unix translation things.
Not a big deal, but a bit of an annoyance. Thanks for any help.
I guess the client is sending the hostname in all caps, you can confirm it with tcpdump.
You can force lowercase hostnames using the option:
normalize-hostnames(yes)
That did it. Perfect - thanks much!
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