[syslog-ng] Log a directory

Nicolas de Marqué - Fromentin nicolas.demarque at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 17:19:18 CEST 2007


Hum, I don't want log in a directory but i wan't log the content of a
directory.

This directory change with the apparition of new files every second and i
must redirect this flow thruth a syslog-ng client to a syslog-ng serveur and
this server organize data with the rules you describe.


2007/7/16, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:38:08 +0200,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicolas_de_Marqu=E9_-_Fromentin?= said:
>
> > I must log files in a directory
> >
> > The rules are :
> >
> >    - this files are created with a name that i must to redirect to
> >    syslog-ng.
> >    - i must redirect a file just after his creation
> >
> > Do you know a solution that can that can resolve this problem.
>
> Are you unable to use the syslog-ng facility for constructing the pathname
> of the logfile?  It allows things like:
>
> destination d_auth {
> file("/logs/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/seclog-$YEAR-$MONTH$DAY"); };
>
> and there's a *lot* of other variables you can include in there.  Or am I
> totally failing to understand the problem?
>
>
>
>
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