Hi, syslog-ng'ers A quick question for all - I've been using syslog-ng, but instead of using the excellent built-in $YEAR $MONTH and $DAY macros for automatic logfile rotation, I've been using a different solution - I use the cronolog program (www.cronolog.org) as a destination for any files that I want to keep locally. It's not optimal, but it allows me to do one thing that keeps our complex management environment intact after the cutover from syslog to syslog-ng, and that's to maintain a symbolic link to the latest and previous logfiles in the place where folks/scripts would normally think to look for them. So for example: /reallybigdisk/logs/2002/06/messages.25 and /reallybigdisk/logs/2002/06/messages.24 would be today's and yesterdays 'messages' file. But with cronolog, I'm able to specify options so that /var/adm/messages is just a symlink to whatever file we're logging to now, and /var/adm/messages.0 is a symlink to whatever file we logged to last: host# ls -l /var/adm/messages* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 25 01:16 /var/adm/messages -> /reallybigdisk/logs/2002/06/messages.25 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 24 01:16 /var/adm/messages.0 -> /reallybigdisk/logs/2002/06/messages.24 I'm not sure if I missed this in the documentation for syslog-ng or perhaps I'm just insane for thinking that this is useful :) So I guess my questions after all this are: - did I miss this in the documentation? - am I insane for wanting such a feature? - would it be a lot of trouble to add this feature? ...I was thinking something along the lines of a 'maintain_symlink' option for a file destination that takes the target of the symlink (e.g., /var/adm/messages) as an option. I thought I'd ask first in case anyone's working on this already - it would save me from hacking at and most likely desecrating the code. I've had a look through, and it's a far tidier job than anything I've done in a long time. But then I haven't been a C programmer for the last 9 years :( Thanks! Jay -- jay goldberg senior engineer open systems ag raeffelstrasse 29 ch-8045 zurich t: +41 1 455 74 00 f: +41 1 455 74 01 jg@open.ch http://www.open.ch