[syslog-ng] Parser not parsing :-)

6 Feb 2012

      I can only assume I am not implementing this correctly. :-)

But I have a parser I am trying to use so I can take a subset of the
information of a message and send that subset to another receiver.
This is the whole message:

<13>Feb  4 18:40:17 myhost syslogng: 2012-02-04T18:40:17-08:00
...
myhostserver-http /tmp/logs/access_log    Hi Mom
What I want to do is send out the message as :

<13>Feb  4 18:40:17 myhost syslogng: Hi Mom

Notice how I dropped the middle part out.
...
From what I have read, the parser acts on the message body alone. Is this
correct?
So I set it up to look for four(4) columns of data and to be "greedy" on
the last column.
I have played around with the number of columns and even used a rewrite
function instead. But the Parser continues to produce empty variables.  And
my template just echos out my default value.

Any thoughts?
...
parser p_et_logmessage {
        csv-parser(
                #columns("ETMSG")
                #columns("ETMSG.ISODATE")
                columns("ETMSG.ISODATE", "ETMSG.EASI", "ETMSG.SOURCE",
"ETMSG.BODY")
                delimiters(" ")
                #template("${MSG}")
                flags(greedy)
        );
};

...
rewrite r_rewrite_set{set('${ETMSG.BODY:-nothing}', value("MESSAGE"));};
template t_et_basic_logmessage {
             template("${ETMSG.BODY:-nothing}\n"); template_escape(no); };
destination destination_info {
        tcp("host2" port(8080)
                template(t_et_basic_logmessage)
                log_disk_fifo_size(32212254720)
        );
};
log {
        source(INTAKE);
        parser(p_et_logmessage);
        destination(destination_info);
};
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[syslog-ng] Parser not parsing :-)

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