[syslog-ng] log line processed after flags(final)

Kevin Lee Phair II listreader at oscared.com
Thu May 18 23:40:30 CEST 2006


Nate Campi wrote:

>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:41:14PM -0400, Kevin Lee Phair II wrote:
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>>Are there any known situations where the use of flags(final) would still 
>>allow the processing of a matched line by log statements which come 
>>later in the config?  In this case there are three log statements total 
>>which a particular line could possibly match; I want it to be processed 
>>by the first two statements but not the third.  After adding 
>>flags(final) to the second log statement, all statements are still being 
>>matched.
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>Sounds like a bug, what version are you using?
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Found the same issue with 1.6.8 and 1.6.10; this is running on a FreeBSD 
4.11 machine, installed from ports. I couldn't reproduce the problem 
with either version (or 1.6.11) installed on a linux box; I have yet to 
test on another 4.11 box, but should be able to do so tomorrow.


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