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How to direct logs to a file based on tag in rsyslogd
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How to direct logs to a file using a logger tag

ls /etc/rsyslog.d/

20-ufw.conf  21-cloudinit.conf  50-default.conf  60-etl.conf  postfix.conf

cat /etc/rsyslog.d/60-etl.conf

:syslogtag, isequal, "claims_etl:" /var/log/etl/claims.log

Once you've created that file, you need to:

sudo mkdir /var/log/etl/
sudo touch /var/log/etl/claims.log
sudo chown -R syslog:syslog /var/log/etl/
sudo service rsyslog restart
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