[syslog-ng] [PATCH] anonymizing filter

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 15:17 -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> * Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> [071203 02:50]:
> > I understand that the need is genuine and the feature this patch
> > provides is useful, but exactly as Evan wrote in his email, its
> > implementation is way out of the syslog-ng model. It uses filters to
> > rewrite parts of the message.
>  
> I agree that there may be better ways to do this, however it is my
> understanding that the 'general message rewrite facility' is not
> currently anything other than a proposal. When is this expected to be
> available so we can do this the 'right' way? If it is far off, could
> this patch be accepted until that is available and it can be replaced
> with the better way?

True, but removing a feature later/making an incompatible change in the
configuration file is always a pain, and I'll be the one to explain it
to other users who did not follow this discussion.

I'm doing the design of the next major syslog-ng release right now, and
I'll make sure this feature sticks somewhere.

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Bazsi