[syslog-ng] patterndb will not accept a program containing a $

[Balazs Scheidler]

I think the restriction should be removed. Viktor, do you agree?
On Oct 20, 2014 12:47 AM, "Evan Rempel" <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

> Technically speaking, any non-alphanumeric character will terminate the
> TAG field at the beginning
> of the message. This is usually one of : [ or space as in the examples
>
> program: this is the message
> program[123]: this is the message
> program this is the message
>
>
> In practice though, syslog daemons will send TAGs that contain any
> character and the syslog-ng Agent for Windows
> will forward the application name as it shows in the Windows Event Log.
> In some cases, this TAG will contain a $ character.
>
> The patterndb-4.xsd definition disallows the $ character in the program
> pattern in pattern database files.
>
> Can this restriction be removed to allow for the $ or is this a larger
> issue that I see?
>
> Thanks again for all of the support.
>
> Evan.
>
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