Im trying to use the wildcard-file module, but the syslog-ng Module: wildcard-file is missing

# service syslog-ng start

Error parsing source, source plugin wildcard-file not found in /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/export-client.conf at line 4, column 29:

                                                 included from /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf line 71, column 1

source s_export_recursive { wildcard-file(

                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I upgraded to the latest syslog-ng

# syslog-ng -V

syslog-ng 3.9.1

Installer-Version: 3.9.1

Revision:

Module-Directory: //usr/lib64/syslog-ng

Module-Path: //usr/lib64/syslog-ng

Available-Modules: kvformat,afprog,afsocket,basicfuncs,linux-kmsg-format,graphite,cef,curl,add-contextual-data,date,json-plugin,pseudofile,afstomp,dbparser,confgen,cryptofuncs,syslogformat,disk-buffer,afuser,afamqp,csvparser,affile,system-source

Enable-Debug: off

Enable-GProf: off

Enable-Memtrace: off

Enable-IPv6: on

Enable-Spoof-Source: off

Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on

Enable-Linux-Caps: on

But I still don’t see where the wildcard-file is.

What Im missing to enable the wildcard-file module?

The conf file Ive created where I want to use it looks like this:

# syslog-ng conf file for central logging CLIENT: export

#

# export source

source s_export_recursive { wildcard-file(

    base-dir("/var/www/capstan/shared/log/exports/")

    filename-pattern("*.log")

    recursive(yes)

    follow-freq(1)

    flags(no-parse)

    log-fetch-limit(100)

    ); };

# export destination

destination d_export_app1 { tcp(10.0.32.97 port(601)); };

# export log

log { source(s_export_recursive); destination(d_export_app1); };

Eric Anderson | DevOps Engineer

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