[rsyslog] Could not open dynamic file ... - discarding message

[Henry]

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.
>