Is it possible to DNS to verify the valid hostnames? Our syslog produces many bogus hostnames and it is almost impossible to list all of them in bad_hostname(). Thanks, Lixin. -----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:42 AM To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]syslog-ng blanks in Servicename On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:24:22AM -0600, markallen wrote:

I recently read a thread that described an option you can set so your not logging blanks in servernames. I seen where I can set the option to ignore bogus hostnames but how do you ignore bogus hostnames that start with a tab?

This is what I'm currently using:

options { bad_hostname("snmp|AFSR|AFSR.PSYND|Delete|In|UDBH|Use|ready32"); };

I would like to exclude everything that starts with a tab as well. Does anyone have any suggestions?

options { bad_hostname("\t"); }; here's the set of special characters you can use (quoting cfg-lex.l): <string>\\a { append_char(7); } <string>\\n { append_char(10); } <string>\\r { append_char(13); } <string>\\t { append_char(9); } <string>\\v { append_char(11); } e.g \a, \n, \r, \t and \v are all supported special characters (similarly to C) -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html