[syslog-ng] log failback groups

Zoltán Pallagi pzolee at balabit.hu
Wed Mar 17 14:54:42 CET 2010


Hi Patrick,

As far as I know,  we would like to solve the failover/failback problem 
in syslog-ng PE v3.2 (and perhaps in OSE v3.2), but we are still working 
on it.
However, we are planning to support it only in case of tcp/syslog 
destinations.

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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pzolee

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