[syslog-ng] pdbtool 'patternize'

David Hauck davidh at netacquire.com
Fri Apr 18 16:22:48 CEST 2014


Hi Fabien,
 
On Friday, April 18, 2014 1:10 AM, you wrote:
> Hello David,	
> 
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:21:34PM +0000, David Hauck wrote:
>> Great, thanks for clarifying this. I'd asked this originally because
>> I thought
> that I'd seen that this wasn't happening (I must have mistook the
> result for something else). By extension then I guess that  rulesets
> without 'program pattern' elements provide default rules for *any*
> incoming message with a non-zero $PROGRAM value (right?).
> 
> Quoting from the "syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin", §13.5.3 "The
> syslog-ng pattern database format":
> 
> "If the <pattern> element of a ruleset is not specified, syslog-ng OSE
> will use this ruleset as a fallback ruleset: it will apply the ruleset
> to messages that have an empty PROGRAM header, or if none of the
> program patterns matched the PROGRAM header of the incoming message."
> 
> That seems pretty crystal clear to me :)

Yes, of course :)! Not sure how I missed that, sorry for the noise ;)!

Cheers,
-David

> cheers
> 
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