Hi Frank,

Thanks for the quick response…my last little bit is, I was under the impression that the message() directive automatically assumed the value was already in the message only, and value() wasn’t required?  Am I off on this?  Thanks again.

James

From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Frank Collette
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:36 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Quick filter question

filter f_firewall {
        not (
               program("firewall" flags(ignore-case)) and
               message("169\.254\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+" value("MESSAGE"));
                )
};


Thanks,

Frank E. Collette IV
Technical Services
Systems Administrator II
Trustmark National Bank
Office: 601-208-7517
Fax: 601-208-6105
fcollette@trustmark.com



From:        "Lay, James" <james.lay@wincofoods.com>
To:        <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Date:        11/08/2011 09:14 AM
Subject:        [syslog-ng] Quick filter question
Sent by:        syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu

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Hey all!

Real quick…trying to filter OUT firewall hits that have say…169.254.  Will this do the trick?

filter f_firewall {
        not program (firewall flags(ignore-case));
        and not message("169\.254\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+");
};

Thanks all.

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