[syslog-ng] composing file names with system varible

[Patrick H.]

No, you can not do anything like that. You can hack something really 
ugly using the program() output driver and feed it back into syslog-ng, 
but that'll be slow and ugly. Though its the only option.


Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:21:42 PM
From: peceka <peceka at gmail.com>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list 
<syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] composing file names with system varible
> Hi,
>
> i've looked there already, before posting to mailing list, but i don't
> see answer for my question there.
> Ok, i saw $HOST macro, but it's not what i'm looking for.
> I don't care what `hostname` gives me. For me important thing is
> string from file and this string should be used as part of filename.
> Or mabye i misunderstand something?
>
> Regards,
> p.
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Patrick H. <syslogng at feystorm.net> wrote:
>   
>> Look at http://www.balabit.com/dl/guides/syslog-ng-v3.0-guide-admin-en.pdf
>> in the "macros" section. You can use variables inside the file() statement.
>> It even has an example doing exactly what youre wanting to do.
>>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:48:49 AM
>> From: peceka <peceka at gmail.com>
>> To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
>> Subject: [syslog-ng] composing file names with system varible
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i've on my machine file with some name, for example:
>> # cat /var/hostname
>> smeagol
>>
>> now i want to have log files like this:
>> /var/log/smeagol-all.log
>>
>> if i change content of /var/hostname and then restart syslog-ng,
>> syslog-ng shoud start logging to files with new name.
>>
>> is it possible? mabye no directly but with some workaround?
>>
>> regards,
>> p.
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