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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for the visualization. So, if I currently have a bunch of log paths that are final the channels forks would just expand out vertically, but then a
junction could be used to join again for the fallback log path? Embedded log paths would just be a fork off of an existing fork?<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">-Mark
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scheidler, Balázs<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 18, 2019 11:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Fabien Wernli <wernli@in2p3.fr>; Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [syslog-ng] Multiple log statements vs If/else<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just think about this as a pipeline that can:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) deliver messages<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) fork to different paths and never join again (=> channel / log statement)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) fork to different paths and then be joined again (=> junction)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4) at every fork, the message is cloned.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">```<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> +-- channel1 ---- destination</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> /</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">src---+</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \ /----\</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> +-- channel 2----+ +---- destination</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> junction</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">```</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:34 PM Fabien Wernli <<a href="mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr">wernli@in2p3.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 01:19:07PM +0000, Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS] wrote:<br>
> Thanks, that does help and I am putting in a fallback log path as the last log path. I think junction/channel is very difficult to understand. If/else is probably the easiest, log paths aren’t that bad, but junction/channel is very unintuitive to me.<br>
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Channels are like individual if (without else) statements.<br>
Junctions are channel containers, all channels being connected downstream.<br>
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