[syslog-ng] Continued struggle with getting shell env vars into log statements

[jetjnkr at gmail.com]

Greetings,

I'm trying to get an environment variable (As defined in the shell - take for example "HOSTNAME").  

echo $HOSTAME provides the expected string....  I then would like to append this to a set of messages based upon a specific destination.  I'm using syslog-ng 3.2.5. In this case the 'hostname' is just an example,  I know that the sending hostname is automatically prepended  - used here because it's commonly defined on systems.

I've included the following config lines from my syslog-ng.conf file.

destination d_web_call      { file("/var/log/web_call" template("<$PRI> $DATE $HOST $MSGHDR$MSG host=`HOSTNAME` \n") template_escape(no)); };
filter f_web_call                 { facility(local1) and ( match("^.*apache-call.*$" value("MSGHDR")) );};

log {
        source(s_sys);
        filter(f_web_call);
        destination (d_web_call);
        flags(final,flow-control);
};


Using the following test string:

/usr/bin/logger -t apache-call-tst -p local1.notice "This is a test message 25"

I get the following:

<141> Sep 26 17:21:18 lab.xxxx.com apache-call-tst: This is a test message25 host= 



I've received a few pointers from folks here (including going to 3.5 which can't be completed in the short term....).  If tried things with 'define' and using the '$' but not back-tick for the shell variable.  It is not clear when this value is set (if at all) within the config file.

Thanks,
Jim.


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