[syslog-ng]macro expansion in program destinations

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:02:58AM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> I might be missing something obvious here, but is there a way to get
> macros to expand when used as arguments to external scripts?
> 
> ex:
> ----------------
> destination test-script {
>         program("/tmp/testscript /var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY_$HOST_$YEAR_$MONTH_$DAY");
> };

there's no point in specifying message specific arguments to a script as the
program is only started once, and it receives messages via its standard
input. you can however control the format of the messages to be sent using:

destination test-script {
	program("/tmp/testscript" template("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY_$HOST_$YEAR_$MONTH_$DAY"));
};

the program will then receive filenames on its standard input, opening and
caching those files (as each filename may occur more than once) should be
done in the script.

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Bazsi
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