[syslog-ng] Re: Named Log Entries in the Config File

[Kenneth Kassing]

I forgot to mention.  My diff is based on the source from 
syslog-ng-1.9.8+20060104.tar.gz

-Ken

Kenneth Kassing wrote:
> Hello,
> I am writing a program to make updates tho the syslog-ng configuration 
> file.  To allow for easily adding and removing log entries, I updated 
> the parser gramer to allow a name field in the log entry.  The name is 
> optional, so old log files will still work.  This name is not used by 
> syslog-ng in any way.
> 
> 
> Example: Both log entries below are valid with my grammar update.
> 
> log {
>         source(s_all);
>         filter(f_syslog);
>         destination(df_syslog);
> };
> 
> log l_syslog {
>         source(s_all);
>         filter(f_syslog);
>         destination(df_syslog);
> };
> 
> A patch generated with the following command is attached: "diff -uprN 
> src/cfg-grammar.y.org src/cfg-grammar.y > ~/cfg-grammar.y.diff"
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --- src/cfg-grammar.y.org	2006-01-04 11:04:19.000000000 -0500
> +++ src/cfg-grammar.y	2006-01-04 11:06:08.000000000 -0500
> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ LogTemplate *last_template;
>  %type	<ptr> source_stmt
>  %type	<ptr> dest_stmt
>  %type	<ptr> log_stmt
> +%type	<ptr> log_stmt_name
> +%type	<ptr> log_stmt_noname
>  %type	<ptr> options_stmt
>  %type	<ptr> template_stmt
>  
> @@ -202,7 +204,16 @@ dest_stmt
>  	;
>  
>  log_stmt
> -        : '{' log_items log_flags '}'		{ $$ = log_connection_new($2, $3); }
> +	: log_stmt_noname			{ $$ = $1; }
> +	| log_stmt_name				{ $$ = $1; }
> +	;
> +
> +log_stmt_name
> +        : string '{' log_items log_flags '}'		{ $$ = make_log_connection($3, $4); }
> +	;
> +
> +log_stmt_noname
> +        : '{' log_items log_flags '}'		{ $$ = make_log_connection($2, $3); }
>  	;
>  
>  options_stmt
> 
> 
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> 
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