[syslog-ng]1.9.3 bug proposal : resolving $HOSTS in destination

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:46 +0100, Gilles Demarty wrote:
> Nate Campi wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0100, Gilles Demarty wrote:
> > 
> >>Here are the revelant debugging infos :
> >>
> >>Incoming log entry; line='<21>Feb 28 15:24:46 logger: test'
> > 
> > 
> > You haven't said what would you have it do when there's no hostname in
> > the incoming message (as is the case here). Would you have it fall back
> > to using the IP of the remote system? Maybe that's not a bad idea.
> > 
> 
> The issue is not that the hostname is empty( well that's kind of issue 
> too, but not the one I point out ;) ) , but that the resolve of the 
> string is not perfomed correctly :
> filename='localhost/var/log/hosts//mail 2005-02-28.notice'
>            ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I got the same, if I remove the $HOST/ in the destination string. The 
> resulting filename is :
> filename='mail/var/log/hosts/ 2005-02-28.notice'
> 	  ^^^^
> 
> I know, the title would have been : "[syslog-ng]1.9.3 bug proposal : 
> resolving $... in destination" instead of $HOST, but well, that's less 
> understanding.

thanks for the report. I'll look into it.

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Bazsi