[syslog-ng] Debugging Pattern Match Failures

[Matthew Hall]

Hello list,

Recently I created a series of blasphemous scripts which convert some 
large collections of recorded log messages in my environment into 
pattern DB XML files. At first there were some syntax errors but I fixed 
all of these and the XML files are loading successfully.

However I am running into some problems with the next step: getting the 
patterns to match against the incoming log messages. I suspect I am not 
properly stripping the headers off of the disk files of recorded 
messages I am using to generate the pattern DB XML files.

I am wondering how I can enable the right debugging capabilities to get 
more detailed debug output from the pattern DB parser where I can see 
what strings are being processed so that I can fix this right instead 
of guessing repeatedly and incorrectly.

Thanks,
Matthew Hall.