Thank! That's essentially what I ended up doing. I need some sort of unique identifier that I can put on the file name in a destination that is static and not tied to the message or anything else that changes. It should be created when the file is created and not changed. I've looked over the macros but I don't see anything, does something like this exist? Thanks, -Mark -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu> On Behalf Of Fabien Wernli Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 20:30 To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [syslog-ng] Help with embedded log paths Hi Mark, Seeing your two recent messages, I think you'd be better off converting your embedded logpath config to a conditional based one (with if-else), like described here: https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.syslog-ng.com%2Ftechnical-documents%2Fdoc%2Fsyslog-ng-open-source-edition%2F3.33%2Fadministration-guide%2F58%23TOPIC-1663378&data=04%7C01%7Cmark.faine%40nasa.gov%7C2e7d5ce6aab74ece418608da0d360984%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637836823001406276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=pMf9iuNbar5XV4vctRVGUzbVCiXK0bMK%2BhX394R6tnw%3D&reserved=0 It's a much easier way to understannd what's happening, compared to the "legacy" way of doing with flags(final) etc. ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.balabit.hu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fsyslog-ng&data=04%7C01%7Cmark.faine%40nasa.gov%7C2e7d5ce6aab74ece418608da0d360984%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637836823001406276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=cuu7WCWt6GokAY3ZuQZf86xuGut1lgxqODq9L0sVEfg%3D&reserved=0 Documentation: https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.balabit.com%2Fsupport%2Fdocumentation%2F%3Fproduct%3Dsyslog-ng&data=04%7C01%7Cmark.faine%40nasa.gov%7C2e7d5ce6aab74ece418608da0d360984%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637836823001406276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Kk%2BbNBHgkrPQGqBR%2Fqyv124vyXO9nEkN8sAROpSghy8%3D&reserved=0 FAQ: https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.balabit.com%2Fwiki%2Fsyslog-ng-faq&data=04%7C01%7Cmark.faine%40nasa.gov%7C2e7d5ce6aab74ece418608da0d360984%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C637836823001406276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Z28icBg1tLi0hlhMcZIWlBVmhLQjdrYS8hTjxfnqxDE%3D&reserved=0