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<p class="MsoNormal">Running OSE version 3.38.1 and having difficulty with a rewrite rule.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The logs that I’m trying to modify look like:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">2024-09-12T06:39:31-05:00 hostname kernel: [*09/12/2024 11:39:31.9055] bwar: [7649:I:CN_ML] …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I am trying to do is remove the extra timestamp in square brackets (the first field in square brackets above.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My rewrite rule looks like:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">rewrite r_bracketed_ts {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas"> subst( '^[.+]\s', '', type(pcre), value("MESSAGE"));<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:Consolas">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is invoked from this log statement:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">log {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> source(s_BSD_UDP_514);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> filter(f_something);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> rewrite(r_bracketed_ts);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> destination(d_something);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> flags(final,flow-control);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">};<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem is that the rewrite appears to do nothing; log entries come out unmodified. Am I missing something?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you –<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jon Wilson<o:p></o:p></p>
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