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admfotad
Asked: 2018-06-14 03:42:48 +0800 CST

rsyslog adding year and changing directory for logs file

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I allready have template in rsyslog.conf file changing directory to store log files but now we must add year to every log msg in this file.

$template TmplAuth, "/home/someuser/logs/%HOSTNAME%/%HOSTNAME%.log"
*.* ?TmplAuth

I do have line that is adding year to every message and it works:

$template TmplAuth,"%$Year% %timegenerated% %syslogtag%%msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"

but how can I use both options (changing log path and adding year to every message in log file) together in single template - is it possible ?

If you know solution please let me know.

Thank you in advance.

rsyslog

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You cannot do this inside a template, but inside the action:

    $template TmplData,"%$Year% %timegenerated% %syslogtag%%msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"
action(type="omfile" dynafile="TmplAuth" template="TmplData")

    and in obsolete legacy format you could use:

    *.* ?TmplAuth;TmplData

    Full details can be found in the omfile documentation.

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