[syslog-ng] Extension for syslog-ng

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:54:07 +0200


> for me, there are some features missing:
> 
> 1. Real boolean expresions in filter statements with: and, or, not , (,
> )
> 
> filter test
> {
>   ( ( program("abc") or program("cde") ) and level("info") ) or
>   ( program("xyz") and level("debug") );
> };

it is exactly implemented this way.

> 
> 2. What about actions ?
> 
> Actions can be used to modify the contents of an log-message (sed-like)
> befor writing it to its destination.

this is planned, though I don't really have time nowadays.

> 3. new destination database
> 
> Is something planed ? Is it interesting ?

I think as long as there's no uniform log format involved, there's no point
in putting log messages into a database.

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