I am doing similar here. we have about 40-50 servers,routers,nas boxes that i am logging. My config file is only 73 lines due to the fact that i am using the hostname macro expansion. I would not even want to write a config for this many servers without the macro expansion. I don't know about any limits on the size of the conf file in syslog-ng though. This is working out quite well for us. why not use the macro expansions instead of hardcoding for each host? Chris Scheller Network One Internet, inc. http://www.networkone.net/ System/Network Administration 1.888.GOT-NET1 On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, ger wrote:

Hi, I'm configuring syslog-ng for use on a central log server, processing logs from 60 busy syslog clients, and I've realised that without hostname macro expansion in the config file I'm going to end up with a file >600 lines long. Is this likely to cause performance problems with syslog-ng when it's trying to compare each syslog packet against this kind of filter/action list, and has anyone else used it in a similar environment?

Thanks, Ger.

-- Ger Mulcahy, Technical Consultant, Harvard Business School

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