[syslog-ng] first post - newbie question

[Christopher Barry]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:33 +0100, fredzy padzy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2 sec of googling with "sample syslog-ng conf" and found
> http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng.conf
> 
> It uses a lot of useless conf, but for what i understood, you have to
> use the following destination structure :
> 
> # set it up
> destination std { 
>     file("/var/log/HOSTS/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY_$HOST_
> $YEAR_$MONTH_$DAY" 
>         owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700)
> create_dirs(yes)
>     ); 
> };
> 
> For the source & option structure, i'm sure you'll find some usefull
> ones in this page.
> 
> :)
> 
> bye
> 
> 
> 2009/11/3 Christopher Barry <christopher.barry at rackwareinc.com>
>         Hi All,
>         
>         Looking for good config example that:
>         sets up syslog-ng as the central log server catching standard
>         remote
>         syslog hosts logs, placing them in hostname dirs, with all of
>         the
>         remotes hosts logfiles intact in the hostname dirs. Creating
>         'date' dirs
>         above the hostname dirs would be sweet too.
>         
>         I've been googling around, but can't really find what I'm
>         after. Did see
>         this, which is essentially what I want, but it seemed to be
>         left
>         unanswered.
>         http://www.syslog.org/forum/syslog-ng/individual-files/
>         
>         
>         Thanks for any pointers to docs/samples you can give me.
>         
>         
>         Cheers,
>         -C
>         
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Thank You Fredzy. I did read that, but it did not seem to be what I
wanted. I will re-read this.

Thanks for your help.

-C