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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Frank,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the quick response…my last little bit is, I was under the impression that the message() directive automatically assumed the value was already in the message only, and value() wasn’t required? Am I off on this? Thanks again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>James<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Collette<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] Quick filter question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>filter f_firewall {</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> not ( </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> program("firewall" flags(ignore-case)) and</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> message("169\.254\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+" value("MESSAGE"));</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> )</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>};</span> <br><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Frank E. Collette IV</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Technical Services<br>Systems Administrator II<br>Trustmark National Bank<br>Office: 601-208-7517</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fax: 601-208-6105</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:fcollette@trustmark.com">fcollette@trustmark.com</a></span> <br><br><br><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Lay, James" <<a href="mailto:james.lay@wincofoods.com">james.lay@wincofoods.com</a>></span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>To: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><<a href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a>></span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Date: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>11/08/2011 09:14 AM</span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Subject: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[syslog-ng] Quick filter question</span> <br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Sent by: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a></span> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:gray' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hey all!</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Real quick…trying to filter OUT firewall hits that have say…169.254. Will this do the trick?</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>filter f_firewall {</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> not program (firewall flags(ignore-case));</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> and not message("169\.254\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+");</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>};</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks all.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>James</span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>______________________________________________________________________________</span></tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt>Member info: </tt></span><a href="https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng"><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng</span></tt></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt>Documentation: </tt></span><a href="http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng"><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng</span></tt></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt>FAQ: </tt></span><a href="http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq"><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq</span></tt></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>