Hey Scot,
Have your read the FAQ?
http://campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html

There's a relevant section to what you were asking to achieve, just search for 
" 

  • Directories with names like "Error", "SCSI", "", are showing up in the directory that holds the syslogs for the different hosts that we monitor. 

    • "

    I know the title doesn't seem relevant but the response in that sections is what I used to setup exactly what you were asking, hope that helps.



    On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Jim Hendrick <jrhendri@roadrunner.com> wrote:
    I would check doing a manual mkdir -p </some/long/path> as the user specified in the config.
    Then try as root if different.
    Also look at how that file system is mounted. Is it local disk or NFS ?
    NFS treats root differently.
    Also I have seen the permissions of the underlying mount point also cause problems. That is rwxr-x--- for the directory on which the NFS is mounted can cause problems for the mounted filesystem.  And you won't see it unless you unmount the NFS piece.
    Anyway that's what I can think of right off.
    Jim



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    -------- Original message --------
    From: "AVELING, BEN (BEN)" <ben.aveling@alcatel-lucent.com>
    Date:08/21/2014 6:33 PM (GMT-05:00)
    To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
    Cc:
    Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] create_dir and "dynamic" destinations.

    Permissions problem? Is anything  reported in syslog-ng’s own logs?

     

    Regards, Ben

     

    From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Renato Bezerra
    Sent: Friday, 22 August 2014 05:51
    To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
    Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] create_dir and "dynamic" destinations.

     

    I use this same config and work very well.

    Em 21/08/2014 16:44, "Balazs Scheidler" <bazsi77@gmail.com> escreveu:

    Hmm it should create the entire path.

    On Aug 20, 2014 5:16 PM, "Scot Needy" <scotrn@gmail.com> wrote:



    Yes, I have the create-dies() option enabled but that does not seem to work for upper level directories.

    Example:

    Only works if the 192_168_9_0 directory is pre-created.
            destination d_192_168_9_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_9_0/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$HOST.log);};



    On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli@in2p3.fr> wrote:

    > Hi Scot,
    >
    > You have the `create-dirs()` option for that:
    >
    > http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin/html-single/index.html#idp4490112
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