[syslog-ng] Can't get program destination to work

[Sandor Geller]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Chuck <chuck.carson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am running 3.0.4 on a solaris 10 host. I am trying to send critical and
> emergency events via smtp. I have the following syntax:
>
> destination r_smtp     { program ("/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-mailer.sh
> $HOST" template("<$PRI>$DATE $HOST $MSG\n.\n"); ); };

Maybe you misunderstood the example.

program ("/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-mailer.sh $HOST"

is bad, the whole string including the space and $HOST is treated as
the program name... Instead of that use

program ("/usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng-mailer.sh" template(...

hth,

Sandor