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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-07-04 07:58:31 +0000
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@@ -408,7 +408,14 @@ name. Thus, the selector line for our dynamic file name would look as follows:</
<code>*.* ?DynFile</code>
</p>
<p>That's all you need to do. Rsyslog will now automatically generate file names
-for you and store the right messages into the right files.</p>
+for you and store the right messages into the right files. Please note that the
+minus sign also works with dynamic file name selectors. Thus, to avoid syncing,
+you may use</p>
+<p align="center">
+<code>*.* -?DynFile</code></p>
+<p>And of course you can use templates to specify the output format:</p>
+<p align="center">
+<code>*.* ?DynFile;MyTemplate</code></p>
<p><b>A word of caution:</b> rsyslog creates files as needed. So if a new host
is using your syslog server, rsyslog will automatically create a new file for
it. <b>However, directories are never created</b>. So if you use a dynamic