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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I agree with what Attila wrote, but to
      answer your question the first rexpression <span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">host("*.abca.*")
        is invalid.<br>
        you have a "*." where you needed a ".*"<br>
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        Evan<br>
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      On 06/06/2017 05:07 AM, Szalai, Attila wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi,<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">First
            of all, the content of the host() is a regular expression,
            so adding .* to the beginning and/or to the end of the
            expression adds nothing, just pain/slowness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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">Second,
            it would help a lot if we can see the actual error message.
            I found no obvious mistake, but because this is not the
            original line, maybe something lost in the translation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <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 [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu">mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu</a>]
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wiskbroom@hotmail.com">wiskbroom@hotmail.com</a><br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 06, 2017 12:59 AM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] Filter Not Working (too
                  many or's?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Here
                is an example of what I am trying to do, these hostnames
                are not real; the real ones have no common pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">filter
                f_xyz         { host("*.abca.*") or host(".*abcb.*") or
                host(".*abcc.*") or host(".*abcd.*") or host(".*abce.*")
                or host(".*abcf.*") or host(".*abcg.*") or
                host(".*abch.*"); };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The
                filter above is for any host containing a hostname with
                what is contained within the .* and *.; i.e. hostabca01
                will be matched by host("*.abca.*")
                <o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">When
                I have this filter in my config, syslog fails to
                restart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
            <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Eyes
                hurt, obvious mistake?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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