<p dir="ltr">Hmm, this is not really easy. Actually syslog-ng uses has own language, complete with a validating parser and lexer.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Handling syntax errors there is possible, but cumbersome, not to mention the ambiguity that easily happens. Think of web browsers of old times that happily processed documents that resembled HTML and the resulting pain that occurred because of the variations in browsers.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2013 5:17 PM, "Lay, James" <<a href="mailto:james.lay@wincofoods.com">james.lay@wincofoods.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Well..say I fat finger a portion of a filter:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">or message("[^0-9]?97\.65\.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Like leave off a quote. Thank you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">James<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><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""> <a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu" target="_blank">syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu" target="_blank">syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Balazs Scheidler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] Continue on with filter errors<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-left:.5in">No, its not possible. Do you care to share your usecase? There might be alternative solutions.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Dec 12, 2013 4:05 PM, "Lay, James" <<a href="mailto:james.lay@wincofoods.com" target="_blank">james.lay@wincofoods.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Question…is there a way to tell syslog-ng to try and continue on with configuration errors (filter)? Weird question maybe, but I was just wondering. Thank you.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">James<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in">
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