[syslog-ng]variables and match()

Balazs Scheidler bazsi@balabit.hu
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:15:43 +0100


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:48:09PM -0000, Paul Miles wrote:
> We're using syslog-ng daemon although and we think we've noticed a feature
> that appears to be missing.
> 
> When you do a pattern match using match(), we require the value of the
> pattern match to be available as a variable, say $1, $2 etc etc.
> 
> Our aim is to be able to farm different syslog entries off to different
> files based on the matched text from the reg. expression. Is this possible.

it's not currently possible. although it could be implemented.

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