<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>syslog-ng OSE 3.4.1 is unable to parse the "<i>Example 5.8: Passing arguments to blocks</i>" excerpt in the v3.4 admin guide, which exemplifies a common construct used in our current 3.2 config :</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">@version: 3.4</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">block source s_logfile (filename("messages")) {</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> file("/var/log/`filename`" );</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">};</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">source s_example {</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> s_logfile(filename("logfile.log"));</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">};</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">host# <b>./syslog-ng -s -f ./s2.conf</b> :</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Error parsing affile, syntax error, unexpected LL_IDENTIFIER in source block s_logfile at line 2, column 19:</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> included from /home/eberggren/proj/syslog-ng/config/s2.conf line 7, column 36</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> file("/var/log/"logfile.log</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> ^^^^^^^^^^^</font></div></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div>3.3.8 appears to be okay with it, however (and our existing 3.2 config).<br></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>-eric</div><div><br></div></body></html>