[syslog-ng]filter question: already matched

James Hamilton jamesh@swcp.com
Fri, 18 May 2001 12:08:04 -0600


And yes the destination and filter is set correctly in my rules.  I just did a poor copy and paste job in my email :-)

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:42:16AM -0600, James Hamilton wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up a filter.  In plain english the rule would read something like below, any suggestions?
> 
> Match everything for this host except things that have already been matched for this host then drop them into a messages file.
> 
> ##
> ##      hosts messages log
> ##
> destination d_messages {
>         file("/var/log/$MONTH/$HOST/$HOST_messages.$MONTH-$DAY-$YEAR"
>         owner(root)
>         group(staff)
>         perm(0640)
>         dir_perm(0750)
>         create_dirs(yes));
> };
> 
> filter f_messages {
> 	(filter(DEFAULT) and host("somehostname"));
> };
> 
> log {
>         source(root);
>         filter(f_cron);
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         destination(d_cron);
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> };
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> James Hamilton
> 
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