[syslog-ng] Duplicate Host paths for destination

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu May 17 21:46:18 CEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:01 -0400, William B Carlson wrote:
> Running syslog-ng 1.6.12 on Fedora 6 (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6) 
> 
> I'm running into a weird problem that I can't seem to figure out. When my 
> logs from syslog-ng write out the $FULLHOST path seems to repeat itself by 
> nesting another level. 
> 
> So instead of getting what I want:
> /var/log/syslog-ng/server.msu.edu 
> 
> I get:
> /var/log/syslog-ng/server.msu.edu/server.msu.edu 
> 
> Not sure what is going on here, I've included my configuration which is 
> pretty simple. 
> 
> Thanks for any assistance to this, I'm sure I overlooked something so very 
> simple. 
> 
> Ben Carlson 
> 
> 
> options { 
> 
>          sync (20);
>          log_fifo_size (1000);
>          perm (0600);
>          dir_perm (0755);
>          check_hostname (yes);
>          keep_hostname (yes);
>          use_fqdn (yes);
>          use_dns (yes);
>          dns_cache (yes);
>          dns_cache_size (1000);
>          dns_cache_expire (43200); 
> 
>        }; 

use chain_hostnames(no)

-- 
Bazsi



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