<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">I seem to be stuck with this one and not sure if possible to do what I am trying?</font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">I copied the rsyslog.conf from my Ubuntu machine and changed it to the below:</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">< ---------- start -----------------></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"># rsyslog - system logging daemon</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">#</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"># rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded replacement for the traditional</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"># syslog daemon, logging messages from applications</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">description<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"system logging daemon"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">start on filesystem</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">stop on runlevel [06]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">expect fork</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">respawn</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">pre-start script</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"> COMPAT=$(/sbin/rsyslogd -v | awk 'NR == 1{print substr($2, 1, 1)}')</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">end script</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">exec rsyslogd -c$COMPAT</font></div></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">< ---------- end -----------------></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">This seems to start and assign a PID, it then terminates and respawns but without a PID and consequently is not really running.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">So i guess my question is: Am I not able to use variables in this way or have I done it the wrong way?</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">If yes to the wrong way, would someone please educate me?</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Also I am guessing this is not really a devel question ... is there a support list?</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Cheers</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">grail</div> </body> </html>