BUG: Number in Hostnames?

17 Jun 2002

      Hi,

I've been toying a bit with syslog-ng, I'm quite happy so far with all the
possibilities it offer me. But I got a problem getting it to work in my
environment.

I want to log normal syslogd machines to a LogHost which would run
syslog-ng. I've installed syslog-ng 1.5.18 on my LogHost and ran a few
tests.

With this config:

options { sync (0);
          time_reopen (10);
          log_fifo_size (1000);
          long_hostnames (no);
          chain_hostnames (no);
          use_dns (no);
          use_fqdn (no);
          create_dirs (no);
          keep_hostname (yes);
        };

source s_sys { unix-stream ("/dev/log"); internal();
        udp (ip(209.71.224.21) port (514)); };
destination mail1 { file("/var/log/mail1"); };
filter filter_mail1 { host("mail1");};
log { source(s_sys); filter(filter_mail1); destination(mail1); };

As you can see, I want to log a host named "mail1" to a file "mail1".
However, it doesn't work. The host send its log entries syslog-ng but
doesn't recognize "mail1".

But, if I change the host("mail1") to host("mail"), it work perfectly. The
hostname in the /var/log/mail1 file is "mail" tho, not "mail1".

I ran syslogd into debug mode on my "mail1" machine. I saw it does send the
logs out with the "mail1" tag.

I tried this with another of my host, its name is nexus1, I experienced the
same behavior.

So, I'm wondering if syslog-ng doesn't like having a number at the end of
the hostname.

The hosts running syslogd are RedHat 7.2 and 7.1.

Any ideas? :) I'd like to get this working, all my hostnames got numbers....

Thanks!

Jonathan.

Jonathan

Balazs Scheidler

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