[syslog-ng] Query regarding syslog-ng.conf and creation of logging files

[Ankit Mahawar]

Thanks Gregely for your inputs.

Ankit



                                                                                                                                             
  From:       Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu>                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                             
  To:         Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>                                                     
                                                                                                                                             
  Date:       11/23/2011 02:37 PM                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                             
  Subject:    Re: [syslog-ng] Query regarding syslog-ng.conf and creation of	logging files                                                
                                                                                                                                             
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Ankit Mahawar <ankit.mahawar at tcs.com> writes:

>  1 . The destination files specified in syslog-ng.conf is created by
> syslog-ng ??

Yes, they will be created by syslog-ng, if they do not exist.

>  2.  If they are created by syslog-ng then , are they created only when
the
> log gets filtered for that destination file ?

Yes.

>  3 . Does this happen in syslog as well,because I think in syslog the
file
> gets created even before logging into the file

That, I do not know. It might be that other syslogd implementations
create the file before any logs reach it.

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