Hi, I've tried in vain to get underscores in the filename expansion but all I get is the last variable. For example: destination hosts { file("/var/log/hosts/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY-$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY" owner(root) group(nms) perm(0640) dir_perm(0750) create_dirs(yes) ); }; Works but changing the "-" with "_" leaves me with files named "$DAY" rather than the whole string. Using "." works ok but it is real messy when you need fqdn. thx jbd -- James Davis Lead Systems Administrator Douglas County Government Information Technology Department 100 Third Street, Castle Rock CO 80104 USA cell 303.994.8881 fax 303.688.6908 direct 303.663.7654 http://www.douglas.co.us/ mailto:jdavis@douglas.co.us