[syslog-ng] Create Pattern-DB rules

Fabien Wernli wernli at in2p3.fr
Thu Oct 2 09:26:44 CEST 2014


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:48:44PM -0400, Justin Kala wrote:
> my syslog-ng server (Syslog-ng OSE 3.0.4), this came default with SOLARIS
> OS..
>  is not using patterndb.xml db_parser i configured in syslog-ng.conf. I
> chopped off the message id content and the actual message  is sent to
> pattern-db parser but all the macro values that are referred from here are
> not getting populated in the final log

Can you elaborate on the nature of "the final log"?
If you're simply using a file destination with default template, you won't
see any of the macros, as by default only $DATE, $HOST, $PROGRAM, $PID and
$MSG are shown. You need to explicitly do that in the template format.



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