Sorry I missed the link in my previous response:

http://www.slideshare.net/rainergerhards1/using-wildcards-with-rsyslogs-file-monitor-imfile

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Shweta <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did setup on ubuntu 12 with rsyslog version 8.23 but nothing get logged
> to my local as well as loggly.
>
> I also tried on ubuntu-16 with rsyslog version 8.5, but nothing is getting
> logged.
>
> Moreover , I went thorough the slide at the link below, where it is
> mentioned to use inotify mode. Where to set inotify mode?
>
> My second issue is I am not able to log anything at /var/log/syslog. Even i
> am not seeing syslog file in /var/log. I have checked /etc/rsyslog.conf
> file but the line in that file is uncommented.
>
> Thanks for you quick response.
> Shweta
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 2:09 PM, David Lang [via rsyslog-users] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > you don't say what version you are running, the most current docs are at:
> > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/imfile.html
> >
> > I'm not sure exactly when wildcards became supported, but I believe it
> was
> > well
> > into the 8.x series.
> >
> > David Lang
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, Shweta wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:21:14 -0700 (MST)
> > > From: Shweta <[hidden email]
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> > > Subject: [rsyslog] Wildcard Support to log all the file logs of a
> > directory
> > >
> > > Hi Support,
> > >
> > > I want to monitor file logs at Loggly. I have many files in a directory
> > and
> > > want to monitor them all with a wildcard. I have a configuration like
> > below:
> > >
> > > $ModLoad imfile
> > > $InputFilePollInterval 10
> > > $PrivDropToGroup adm
> > > $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
> > >
> > > # Input for FILE1
> > > $InputFileName /FILE1
> > > $InputFileTag APPNAME1
> > > $InputFileStateFile stat-APPNAME1 #this must be unique for each file
> > being
> > > polled
> > > $InputFileSeverity info
> > > $InputFilePersistStateInterval 20000
> > > $InputRunFileMonitor
> > >
> > > # Add a tag for file events
> > > $template LogglyFormatFile,"<%pri%>%protocol-version%
> > > %timestamp:::date-rfc3339% %HOSTNAME% %app-name% %procid% %msgid%
> > > [TOKEN@41058 tag=\"file\"] %msg%\n"
> > >
> > > # Send to Loggly then discard
> > > if $programname == 'APPNAME1' then @@logs-01.loggly.com:514;
> LogglyFormatFile
> >
> > > if $programname == 'APPNAME1' then ~
> > >
> > > What I want is to use wildcard as
> > >
> > > $InputFileName /directory/*.txt
> > >
> > > or $InputFileName /directory/*
> > >
> > > Please consider my case on priority.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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