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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">We are running syslog-ng v2.1 in a multiple client-server configuration. Due to new encryption requirements, we planning to upgrade to v3.0.8 soon and use the TLS capabilities. Upon one of our test
servers, I discovered that the following filtering </font><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">works just fine under syslog-ng v2.1 and blocks the messages from reaching the remote syslog-ng server:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">filter M_audit { not match("Audit daemon rotating log files"); };<br>
filter M_snmp { not match("snmpd"); };<br>
filter M_repeat { not match("last message repeated"); };<br>
filter M_stats { not match("Log statistics"); };<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">log { source(s_localhost);<br>
filter(M_audit);<br>
filter(M_snmp);<br>
filter(M_repeat);<br>
filter(M_stats);<br>
destination(d_general); # Remote Syslog server<br>
};</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">However under syslog-ng v3.0.8, these messages are getting passed over to the remote syslog server. What do I need to do to strip these messages from getting passed through? I tried using "not message" but that doesn't
seem to work.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">-- Michael</font></div>
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