RE: $HOST $YEAR, etc not working correctly..

I saw this as well, and replaced all the underscores with dashes.  This
problem started with 1.6.x.


Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:syslog-ng-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Peterson
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:08 AM
To: syslog-ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [syslog-ng]$HOST $YEAR, etc not working correctly..



--- Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2004-02-25, sze keltezéssel 21:16-kor Doug Peterson ezt írta:
> > --- Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > strange, the problem seems to be that you reference marcos like 
> > > $YEAR_$MONTH_
> > > 
> > > which is interpeted as $YEAR_ concatenated with $MONTH_, these are 
> > > undefined macros, thus are expanded to an empty string.
> > > 
> > > Try escaping the underscore with a backslash, like
> > > 
> > > $YEAR\_$MONTH\_
> > 
> > 
> > I escaped out the _ characters, and am still getting the same 
> > results with 1.6.2.. files are
> being
> > written as messages_25 (25 being $DAY)
> > 
> > My rules now look like this:
> > 
> > destination messages.network { 
> > file("/var/log/hosts/$HOST/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/messages\_$HOST\_$YEAR\_$MONTH\_$DAY"
> >                                 owner(root) group(sysadmin) 
> > perm(0640) dir_perm(0700)
> > create_dirs(yes) ); };
> 
> 
> This definitely works here. syslog-ng uses gperf to generate a lookup 
> hash for macro names. A generated file is shipped with syslog-ng to 
> avoid the build dependency on gperf, but maybe it was regenerated for 
> some reason.
> 
> This area had a bug in 1.6.0rc2 (before or after this version should 
> be ok), are you sure you are running 1.6.2?
> 
> --
> Bazsi

I am running: syslog-ng 1.6.0rc1 currently, and that is the most recent version 
that works (I'm not sure if I tried rc2). 

When I install 1.6.2 I encounter the macro problem, even when I escape the 
underscore. 



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