[syslog-ng] strange problem when use "_" in the destination log file name

Arnold Wang arnold.wang at inovis.com
Thu Aug 4 18:20:58 CEST 2005


I'm worrying about this as well. I noticed "_" is used a lot in macros
and there is one called "$HOST_FROM". 
Maybe I found a bug?
   
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 02:40 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:01:05 PDT, Arnold Wang said:
> 
> > ng/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$HOST_$MONTH$DAY.log" owner(root) group
> > (root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700) create_dirs(yes)); }; 
> > However, the log file generated by the syslog-ng for today is named
> > "0803.log", which is different than "hostname_0803.log" as I expected. 
> 
> I wonder if it's looking for a variable called HOST_ and not finding it,
> because the variable's name is HOST without the _ character....
> 


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