Issue while logging to messages file

Good morning!  I am testing syslog-ng to find an alternative to syslog.   So 
far, so good, the instructions have been great and I got it to work.  However, 
I have one issue I can't seem to fix nor find literature which addresses it.   
I discovered that when the /var/log/messages file gets switched to messages.1 
(then messages.2 and so forth), syslog-ng keeps logging to the new file name 
messages.1 instead of messages as I defined it in the conf file.   I was hoping 
someone might know why does syslog-ng do this, and how can it be fixed?    
Thanks in advance for any info.  Best regards to all,
Paul

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Paul Jasa 
Network Engineer 
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