[syslog-ng] Multiple log statements vs If/else

Fabien Wernli wernli at in2p3.fr
Thu May 9 13:55:39 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 12:58:50PM +0000, Faine, Mark R. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS] wrote:
> I can understand that, however, if you’re trying to convert yaml into a log path it would be hard to do if/else dynamically.  I am curious about how the declaration order matters.  My understanding is that each message will be evaluated for a match on each log statement in the order that they appear in the file and only when it hits a log statement with a final flag will it stop attempting to match.  Is that correct?

there is also the 'fallback' flag

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