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Can someone help me start a topic for the following? My account is not allowing me to start a Topic in Logging Server Forum:

How do I perform the following:


If we have rotating *.bin logs going to the following rotating directory by date and time (/opt/Avaya/ExperiencePortal/MPP/logs/records/"Date Folders") how can I use syslog to tail these files into a *.log file that will clear itself once it grows to specified size?

I would like it to run into a rsyslog file maybe


This is an example of the log file that is created : /opt/Avaya/ExperiencePortal/MPP/logs/records/2016/09/26/ches-prod-mpp1.mapcom.local_adr_vxml_1_20160926.bin

Can Nagios follow the information going into these files that are changing file names constantly or am I going about this all wrong?


Moderator Edit: This thread has been split from another - https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 37&t=40210
In the future, please create a new thread and link to the old one instead of adding on.

The short answer for this is that it's not possible for most rsyslog distributions. The option to include files on a wildcard is included in version 8 which is not yet included in most of the big-name repositories to be installed via yum/apt.

See this thread for more information:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 38&t=40335