[syslog-ng] Rediecting logs

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 12:38 +0200, Zoltán Pallagi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Replace $HOST_syslog.log to $HOST-syslog.log and it will work.
> Syslog-ng seems to be handling wrong if underscore character is after
> macroname.
> Report a bug about it, please (https://bugzilla.balabit.com/)

this is not a bug, '_' is permitted in the name of a macro, thus $HOST_
is an - undefined - macro that syslog-ng expands to its value: nothing.

you should use ${HOST} if you want to use the '_'

This is the same as the UNIX shell behaviour btw.

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Bazsi