[syslog-ng] Feature Request - patterndb match set

[Evan Rempel]

I have come across some odd lines that really can't be matched/parsed by the patterndb

2011-11-25T10:49:21-08:00 mmfs at hermes0022.westgrid.uvic.ca/localhost/hermes0022/xcat2.westgrid.uvic.ca local2.info mmfs: Module                  Size  Used by
2011-11-25T10:49:21-08:00 mmfs at hermes0022.westgrid.uvic.ca/localhost/hermes0022/xcat2.westgrid.uvic.ca local2.info mmfs: mmfs26               1945576  0
2011-11-25T10:49:21-08:00 mmfs at hermes0022.westgrid.uvic.ca/localhost/hermes0022/xcat2.westgrid.uvic.ca local2.info mmfs: mmfslinux             326280  1 mmfs26
2011-11-25T10:49:21-08:00 mmfs at hermes0022.westgrid.uvic.ca/localhost/hermes0022/xcat2.westgrid.uvic.ca local2.info mmfs: tracedev               67148  2 mmf


I would like to match these and parse out the number. The catch is that the number is right justified which means that
there is a variable number of spaces before the number.

I am open to suggestions about how to make a paterndb pattern to match this and parse the number into a tag/value pair.

Failing that I would propose that a @SET@ parser.

@SET:name:character set@

This will match a sequence of characters that contain any of, and only those characters listed by "character set"

This will allow matches of arbitrary length separators such as spaces or hyphens or other cases that can not yet be
handled.

Comments?

Evan