[syslog-ng] log failback groups

Fekete Robert frobert at balabit.hu
Wed Mar 17 11:44:39 CET 2010


Hi Patrick,

Currently this is not supported in syslog-ng, but should be in the (hopefully 
near) future.
Bazsi, can you give an estimate on that?

Regards,

Robert

Patrick H. wrote:

> How do you do groups of failbacks? For example
> 
> log { filter(f_filter1); destination(d_file1); };
> log { filter(f_filter1); destination(d_file2); }; <-- log here only if 
> the above fails
> log { filter(f_filter2); destination(d_sql1); }; <-- may include 
> messages from the above 2 lines
> log { filter(f_filter2); destination(d_sql2); }; <-- log here only if 
> d_sql1 fails
> 
> So, say lines 1 and 3 both fail, lines 2 and 3 should both start 
> working. If I put a fallback flag on d_file2 and d_sql2, and d_sql1 
> fails, d_sql2 wont kick in on matches that d_file1 is still taking.
> It seems like there should be a way to do "log { destination(...) or 
> destination(...); };", or "log {...} or log {...};".
> 
> 
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