[syslog-ng]Doing a regex substitution in syslog-ng

Donavan Pantke avatar@dcr.net
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:20:43 -0400


=09Hey guys, I'm trying to make a syslog-ng solution to recieve logs from=
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custom java apps that output syslog data, but I have an issue. Our=20
programmers have already defined a format for their messages, and our log=
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parsers expect this format. I can pass the data around syslog systems, bu=
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the destination file, I need to strip off the syslog headers to leave me =
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the raw message that was came out of the ajva app. I was hoping that I co=
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do something akin to a filter that did a regex substitution to modify the=
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message to make it look pretty. Is this possible, and if not, is there an=
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other way of pulling this off?

=09Thanks
=09Donavan Pantke