[syslog-ng] Pattern Database first snapshot available

[ILLES, Marton]

Hi,

Last week BalaBit made available some 8000 patterns (covering more than
200 applications) for syslog-ng patterndb (or db_parser as you like to
call it). The patterns are available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (CC by-NC-SA) license. The
patterns in their current form are just snapshots of the ongoing effort
of providing good quality patterns for various applications. You can
download the snapshot of patterns from our website:
http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/patterndb-snapshot/patterndb-20091209.zip

The patterns are partially hand-crafted and also automatically generated
from logfiles and from logcheck regexp based database. Some of the
patterns also contains example messages which we are using to
automatically test the pattern and syslog-ng's db_parser. You can merge
the xml files using "pdbtool merge".

I would also like to setup a public git repository where anyone
interested can follow the patterndb development and can submit patterns
or fixes. A patterndb website containing all patterndb related
information, links, forums, wikis and other useful documentations is
under construction as well. Till than the syslog-ng mailing list a good
place for questions, ideas and discussions.

As always feedbacks are very welcomed!

Happy parsing!

Marton
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