[syslog-ng]$HOST directories

Jeremy Jones syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
22 Apr 2003 14:26:22 -0600


Yeehaw!  Thanks, Andrew.  Works like a charm with
1.6.0rc2+20030422manual.

Jeremy

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 14:16, Hamilton, Andrew wrote:
> I probably should have just said a current snapshot.
> 
> Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Jones [mailto:jeremy@samnjack.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:09 PM
> To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: [syslog-ng]$HOST directories
> 
> 
> Hello all yalls,
> 
> I've been beating my head against a wall for a couple hours here, but
> have yet to figure out how to get syslog-ng to create my $HOST
> directories, or to even use them when I create them manually.  When a
> remote host sends it's syslog messages, they just end up in
> /var/log/netlog/whatever.log.  There's no indication anywhere else in my
> logs about improper permissions or anything of that sort.  I'm trying to
> use version 1.6.0rc2 and libol-0.3.10.  
> 
> If it's at all interesting, "uname -a" tells me:
> 
> Linux <my-secret-hostname> 2.4.20 #1 Wed Mar 26 11:34:49 MST 2003 i686
> unknown
> 
> I've gone round and round with all the various dns/hostname related
> options, to no avail.  Anyone have any Great Ideas?  
> 
> Here's some snippets from my syslog-ng.conf file:
> 
> options {
>         sync(0);
>         time_reopen(10);
>         log_fifo_size(100);
>         keep_hostname (yes);
>         dns_cache (yes);
>         long_hostnames (yes);
>         use_dns (yes);
>         use_fqdn (yes);
>         chain_hostnames (no);
>         create_dirs (yes);
>         owner (root);
>         group (root);
>         stats (600);
>         perm (0660);
>         dir_owner (root);
>         dir_group (root);
>         dir_perm (0770);
>         use_time_recvd (yes);
> };
> 
> <snip>
> 
> source net { tcp(); udp(); };
>  
> 
> destination net_authlog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/auth.log"); };
> destination net_userlog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/user.log"); };
> destination net_bootlog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/boot.log"); };
> destination net_errorlog  { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/errors.log"); };
> destination net_cronlog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/cron.log"); };
> destination net_kernlog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/kern.log"); };
> destination net_maillog   { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/mail.log"); };
> destination net_messages  { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/messages"); };
> destination net_daemonlog { file("/var/log/netlog/$HOST/daemon.log"); };
> destination net_wwwacclog {
> file("/var/log/netlog/data/www/LOGS/$YEAR/$MONTH/www.access.log.$YEAR.$MONTH
> .$DAY");};
> destination net_wwwerrlog {
> file("/var/log/netlog/data/www/LOGS/$YEAR/$MONTH/www.errors.log.$YEAR.$MONTH
> .$DAY");};
>  
> 
> log { source(net); filter(f_authpriv); destination(net_authlog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_user); destination(net_userlog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_boot); destination(net_bootlog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_err); destination(net_errorlog);  };
> log { source(net); filter(f_cron); destination(net_cronlog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_kern); destination(net_kernlog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_mail); destination(net_maillog);   };
> log { source(net); filter(f_daemon); destination(net_daemonlog); };
> log { source(net); filter(f_messages); destination(net_messages);  };
> log { source(net); filter(f_www); filter(f_info);
> destination(net_wwwacclog); };
> log { source(net); filter(f_www); filter(f_err); 
> destination(net_wwwerrlog); };
> 
> Thanks a million
> Jeremy 
> 
> <please send inspectors to my country... i think we may have weapons of
> mass destruciton>
> 
> 
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