[syslog-ng] Message correlation, everything needs an "@"? And a grep problem.

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Tue Mar 1 23:51:10 CET 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 21:57 +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> Op 01-03-11 21:26, Balazs Scheidler schreef:
> >> Hmm.. I didn't even notice the context-id part, that's different from
> >> the problem I realised.
> >>
> >> the context-id is expanded _before_ even identifying the context, so
> >> that shouldn't work that way.
> 
> Hmm. That's not what I found. Without "@1", my postfix-correlation did 
> not work. With @1, it did. I'm 100% sure.
> 
> Could the context-scope="host" have anything to do with it?

Well, I'm positive that if you use @1 in there, then that value expands
to nothing.

It is still an ID nevertheless.

> 
> The context-id being ${queue-id} is crucial here, because this is the 
> only way to follow a postfix mail through the various handlers.

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Bazsi



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