[syslog-ng] Using patterndb in syslog-ng

Scot Needy scotrn at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 15:40:52 CEST 2016


Thanks That seems to have fixed it 

I have another topic for use case but I’ll create another thread. 


> On Aug 31, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Mitzki, András <andras.mitzki at balabit.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Scot,
> 
> Your founded issue seems valid. The GitHub project: syslog-ng-patterndb need some updates, to fix that warnings (Non-numeric correlation state ID found).
> For the quick workaround you can add some missing "@" to the following lines in generated patterndb.xml. After that syslog-ng should start with that patterndb.xml.
> 
> install/var/patterndb.xml:209:          <value name='usracct.device'>${temp.su_username}@@${temp.su_tty}</value>
> install/var/patterndb.xml:587:          <value name='usracct.device'>${temp.sudo_username}@@${temp.sudo_tty}</value>
> install/var/patterndb.xml:616:          <value name='usracct.device'>${temp.sudo_username}@@${temp.sudo_tty}</value>
> install/var/patterndb.xml:643:          <value name='usracct.device'>${temp.sudo_username}@@unknown</value>
> 
> Micek
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction on how to use update-patterndb for syslog-ng ?
> 
> Downloaded current git syslog-ng-patterndb to /opt/syslog-ng/etc/patterndb.d/, but not sure how to load and test it.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong ?
> 
> 
> bin/pdbtool  merge -r --glob \*.pdb -D /opt/syslog-ng/etc/patterndb.d -p /opt/syslog-ng/etc/patterndb.xml
> 
> [@ROOT] sbin/syslog-ng -f /opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf
> 
> [2016-08-31T00:55:54.978717] Non-numeric correlation state ID found, assuming a literal '@' character. To avoid confusion when using a literal '@' after a macro or template function, write '@@' in the template.; Template='${temp.su_username}@${temp.su_tty}’
> blah…
> blah..
> [2016-08-31T00:55:54.978978] Non-numeric correlation state ID found, assuming a literal '@' character. To avoid confusion when using a literal '@' after a macro or template function, write '@@' in the template.; Template='${temp.sudo_username}@unknown’
> 
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