Hmm, this is not really easy. Actually syslog-ng uses has own language, complete with a validating parser and lexer.

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.

On Dec 17, 2013 5:17 PM, "Lay, James" <james.lay@wincofoods.com> wrote:

Well..say I fat finger a portion of a filter:

 

or message("[^0-9]?97\.65\.)

 

Like leave off a quote.  Thank you.

 

James

 

From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler
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Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Continue on with filter errors

 

No, its not possible. Do you care to share your usecase? There might be alternative solutions.

On Dec 12, 2013 4:05 PM, "Lay, James" <james.lay@wincofoods.com> wrote:

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.

 

James


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