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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>
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<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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<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 [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>wiskbroom@hotmail.com<br />
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 06, 2017 12:59 AM<br />
<b>To:</b> syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu<br />
<b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] Filter Not Working (too many or's?)<o:p></o:p></span></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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