Hello! Tried it with various log locations (e.g. /tmp/my.log), neither worked. Is this worth ab bug?
-- kind regards, Henry On Fr, 2009-09-04 at 21:25 +0200, Henry wrote: > Hi! > > This puzzels me: This is my tcprecieve config file for rsyslog v4 on > ubuntu: > > -----8<----- > $ModLoad imtcp > $InputTCPServerRun 514 > > # some dynamic templates > $template DYNlocal1,"/var/log/remote/%HOSTNAME%/local1.log" > > # log remote local1 to dynamic diretory > if $fromhost-ip != '127.0.0.1' and \ > $syslogfacility-text == 'local1' \ > then -?DYNlocal1 > ----->8----- > > I created /var/log/remote with sufficient privileges. > > Unfortunately this doesn't work. rsyslog crates a folder named after the > remote host (myhostname) and creates the file local1.log (again: > sufficient permissions: syslog:syslog 640). But it doesn't write to that > file, but logs the error: > > -----8<----- > Could not open dynamic file '/var/log/remote/myhostname/local1.log' - > discarding message > ----->8----- > > As you might guess my question is: Why isn't rsyslog able to open a file > it is able to create? Any help or hint is really appreciated. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
