Hi Gerdard, you can use logger cron job to create specific syslog messages like $ logger -p auth.info foobar or $ logger -p err foobar but that will not create empty files. Why you don't simply touch the files per cron job? Jörg On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:48:17 +0100 "Eggart, Gerhard" <geggart@emea.att.com> wrote:

Hi,

We are currently using syslog-ng (syslog-ng 1.6.0rc4) to log for local log messages on a device. We have the following in the config file to store local auth messages.

destination local_auth { file("/var/log/local/auth.$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"); };

We have the following in the config file to store local error messages.

destination local_err { file("/var/log/local/errors.$YEAR$MONTH$DAY"); };

The problem I have is that sometimes for a day there are no error or auth messages and because of this the log file is not generated, a log file is only created if there is log data to put into it.

I require syslog-ng to force the creation of a log file for the day even if it is empty.

I have also just tried the stats(600) option in the configuration and stopped and started the dameon and this does not write any information to a log file - therefore no errors log file is created for the day.

Does anyone know if this can be done on syslog-ng ???

Thanks

...

Gerhard Eggart

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