[syslog-ng] Filters not working at all?

[Markus Warg]

Bazsi,

On Fre, 17 Dez 1999, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:30:18PM -0500, John Wingenbach wrote:
> > I have syslog-ng V 1.3.8 installed on Solaris 2.6 system.  I can't seem
> > to get the range specification for filters to work properly (e.g.
> > level(debug..emerg))).  Instead only a single level is stored in the
> > file.  Here is my current syslog config file:
> 
> level(debug .. emerg), spaces are important.
> 
> The problem is that, if I try to remove '.' from the valid word characters,
> IP address would have to be enclosed withing quotation marks. So there are
> two alternatives:
> 
> 1) You have to put spaces between '..' and the priority id
> 2) You have to enclose IP addresses within ""
> 
> What do you think?

You'll never find ".." in a valid IP address. Thats what I check for
when I want to check for errors. Problem: you'll have to look ahead
one more character.

Markus

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