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

[Rainer Gerhards]

can you provide a debug log?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Henry
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:04 AM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Could not open dynamic file ... - discarding
> message
> 
> 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.
> >
> 
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