[syslog-ng] syntax error

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 20:03 +0100, Jacek Kalinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you have an error because syslog-ng 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 can't convert
> user/group name to user/group ID.
> But when you specify, eg.
> group(10) it will start correctly (if GID 10 = tty).
> 
> I wrote about this between 2006-11-26 and 2006-11-28 in thread: "Config
> parse error in syslog-ng 2.0.0". It still hasn't been fixed.

I fixed this problem already, only my fix was not complete.

If you enclose the group in quotes (e.g. "tty") it'd work.

The patch below fixes this minor issue as well:

--- orig/src/cfg-grammar.y
+++ mod/src/cfg-grammar.y
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ string
        ;
 
 string_or_number
-        : STRING                                { $$ = $1; }
+        : string                                { $$ = $1; }
         | NUMBER                                { char buf[16]; snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", $1); $$ = strdup(buf); }
 
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