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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">This is what my current configuration looks like now (disabled TLS to allow for debugging):</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Alan McKinnon [Alan.McKinnon@is.co.za]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] [Bug 93] New: filter() functionality between 2.1 to 3.0 not consistent<br>
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<div class="PlainText">I think you are running into the changed definitions of match() between 2.0
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and 3.0<br>
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<a href="http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-guide-" target="_blank">http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-guide-</a><br>
admin-en.html/reference_filters.html<br>
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especially match() and message()<br>
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Of your samples, the 3rd and 4th should work. What is the full config that <br>
applies to how you use this filter? Are you perhaps applying two filters? Be <br>
careful with that - filters are always ANDed in a log statement, not ORed.<br>
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On Tuesday 21 September 2010 16:16:57 bugzilla@bugzilla.balabit.com wrote:<br>
> <a href="https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=93" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=93</a><br>
> <br>
> Summary: filter() functionality between 2.1 to 3.0 not<br>
> consistent Product: syslog-ng<br>
> Version: 3.0.x<br>
> Platform: PC<br>
> OS/Version: Linux<br>
> Status: NEW<br>
> Severity: major<br>
> Priority: unspecified<br>
> Component: syslog-ng<br>
> AssignedTo: bazsi@balabit.hu<br>
> ReportedBy: mworsham@scires.com<br>
> Type of the Report: bug<br>
> Estimated Hours: 0.0<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> In the older syslong-ng v2.1, this line works perfectly:<br>
> <br>
> filter M_audit { not match("Audit daemon rotating log files"); };<br>
> <br>
> Under 3.0.8, none of the following are working (if added one line at a<br>
> time) and the daemon restarted:<br>
> <br>
> filter M_audit { not match("Audit daemon rotating log files"<br>
> value("MSGONLY") flags(ignore-case)); }; filter M_audit { not<br>
> match("MSGONLY" value("Audit daemon rotating log files")<br>
> flags(ignore-case)); }; filter M_audit { not match("Audit daemon rotating<br>
> log files" value(MSGONLY) flags(ignore-case)); }; filter M_audit { not<br>
> match("Audit daemon rotating log files" value(MSGONLY)); }; filter M_audit<br>
> { not match("MSGONLY" value("Audit daemon rotating log files")); };<br>
> <br>
> What I am looking to do is if any incoming data has the following keywords<br>
> (i.e. "Audit daemon rotating log files") being detected, it should be<br>
> filtered (i.e. dropped), and then not show up in the actual message log<br>
> file.<br>
> <br>
> For example, if I go over on the syslog-ng client and do 'logger daemon':<br>
> - The older v2.1 syslog-ng server detects the embedded keyword and<br>
> drops the message. <-- This is correct - On the v3.0.8, the message passes<br>
> through and found in the data file. <-- This is incorrect<br>
> <br>
> Attempted to use the following URLs to correct the formatting, but it still<br>
> not working: -<br>
> <a href="http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-gu" target="_blank">
http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-gu</a><br>
> ide-admin-en.html/configuring_filters.html -<br>
> <a href="http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-gu" target="_blank">
http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-v3.1-gu</a><br>
> ide-admin-en.html/reference_macros.html<br>
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