I can't seem to get create_dirs to work. When i add it to my options and add a destination such as destination test { file("/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/$FACILITY"); }; not only does it not create the directories or the files, but syslog-ng stops logging everything all together. Any thoughts? did i miss something in the conf? Chris Scheller System/Network Administration Network One Internet, inc. http://www.networkone.net/ 1.888.GOT-NET1 On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

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I'm looking at the ChangeLog for 1.3.15, and it mentions "added create_dirs", and "updated documentation", but I cannot find any docs about the new features...

What am I missing???

The 1.3.15 tarball doc/sgml/syslog-ng.txt file contains this. (or the .html version)

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I can't seem to get create_dirs to work. When i add it to my options and add a destination such as destination test { file("/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/$FACILITY"); }; not only does it not create the directories or the files, but syslog-ng stops logging everything all together. Any thoughts? did i miss something in the conf?

you'll need to enable the create_dirs option either per destination, or a global basis like this:

destination test { file("/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/$FACILITY" create_dirs(yes)); };

I'll check why it stops logging.

this bug should be fixed in the just released 1.3.17 with a couple of other fixes. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 url: http://www.balabit.hu/pgpkey.txt