I tried something similar, and found that syslog-ng went balistic and was constantly 'stat(/var)' (according to truss). Also, should it create *any* directory it needs? or only ones that are the result of a variable expansion? For example file("/var/log/make/this/directory/$HOST.log"); where only /var/log exists... BTW, I tried this on 1.3.16 (ahh, fresh code!) Thanks, Sam -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scheller [mailto:schelcj@networkone.net] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 6:24 PM To: syslog-ng@venus.terrasoft.hu Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] create_dirs in 1.3.15 I can't seem to get create_dirs to work. When i add it to my options and add a destination such as destination test { file("/var/log/syslog-ng/$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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