On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 09:22:44PM +0200, Yannik Sembritzki wrote:
> The default of syslog_name is
> ${multi_instance_name:postfix}${multi_instance_name?$multi_instance_name}
> (atleast
> on ubuntu).
>
> Is it possible to somehow use something like "-o
> syslog_name=${syslog_name}-submission" to append "-submission" to the
> default syslog_name?
No. Parameter expansion is recursive, and this yields an infinite loop.
The default value is never used when you override a parameter.
You need to cut/paste the default value into the replacement. There
is no support for prepend or append.
--
Viktor.
