[syslog-ng]match to an empty messages line

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:25 +0200, Stephan Hendl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> recently I included fibrechannel switches in my central syslog-ng. The switches often send empty line among important lines. I want to drop the empty ones. How can I achieve that by means of filter rules?

syslog-ng drops really empty lines, probably it still contains
something, at least a timestamp.

you can match empty messages using:

filter f_empty { match("^$"); };

however you might still have some spaces in that in which case it
becomes:

filter f_empty { match("^ *$"); };

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Bazsi