[syslog-ng] PatternDB program name pattern - invalid characters

[Evan Rempel]

/tmp/mksysdb.4256.xml:12069: element rule: Schemas validity error : Element 'rule', attribute 'class': [facet 'pattern'] The value '%ASA' is not accepted by the pattern '[\-a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+'.

I have been bitten once again by the limitation of the program name pattern in the patterndb.

Can this character set limitation just be removed?

If you really want to keep it, can the valid set be made very inclusive.

The reason I'm bumping into this is cisco logs, symatec endpoint logs and oracle VMWare appliance boxes.
I'm sure there are others out there :-(

Evan.