[syslog-ng] overwrite_if_older() option causes syntax error

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Sun Mar 18 21:21:40 CET 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:22 -0500, simonst at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> I'm still getting a syntax error when I add "overwrite_if_older(604800)" to
> a file driver, in my syslog-ng 2.0rc4.  
> 
> One person suggested adding semicolons, but that made no difference.  
> 
> I searched the source, but couldn't find "overwrite_if_older" in any *.c or
> *.h files.
> 
> Does anyone know if that parm is supported? It's described in Table 3.6.
> "Available options for file()", section 3.2.1 of the syslog-ng 2.0 reference
> manual.

you need a newer version, I can't remember right now which one, but if
you check out the NEWS file in the root of the source distribution it
should contain an entry when it was added. (2.0.2 IIRC)

-- 
Bazsi



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