Re: [syslog-ng] How to "drop" a message, effectively skipping further processing and not logging it?

Geller, Sandor (IT) wrote:

Hello,

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Is there any way other than this to keep a message from being sent to another host or a file? If not, is there any way to tell syslog-ng NOT to modify the state of a file, just to send data TO it? That, or an internal "drop" stop-processing built-in destination would be extremely useful.

Simply remove all destinations from the log section and use flags(final) will do the trick.

Don't I feel daft... I recall trying that a couple years ago, but had errors I don't seem to have resolved before deciding to just write to /dev/null. I must've botched the syntax and thought that you HAD to have a destination in a log line! Thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, /eli