[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng not honoring negative flag

Dan Egli dan at newideatest.site
Wed Apr 7 05:17:51 UTC 2021


I'm having a bit of a problem and hope someone here can help. I'm trying 
to separate individual items into specific logs, i.e. ssh events in 
sshd.log, samba messages in samba.log, etc...

I managed to come up with filters that pull out the events I started 
with, and they are going into the correct log files. But they are ALSO 
going into /var/log/messages even though I specifically have a filter on 
that one that says not to include samba or sshd events. I'll copy my 
config file here. Hopefully someone can tell me what I did wrong.

Thanks!

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@version: 3.30

@include "scl.conf"

options {
     threaded(yes);
     chain_hostnames(no);
     stats_freq(43200);
     mark_freq(3600);
};

source src { system(); internal(); };

filter samba { program("samba"); };
filter ssh_messages { facility("AUTH") and level("INFO"); };
filter syslog { not filter("ssh_messages") and not filter("samba"); };

destination console { file("/dev/tty12"); };
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
destination sshd_log { file("/var/log/sshd/sshd.log"); };
destination smb_logs { file("/var/log/samba/samba.log"); };

log { source(src); destination(smb_logs); filter(samba); flags(final); );
log { source(src); destination(sshd_log); filter(ssh_messages); 
flags(final); };
log { source(src); destination(console); filter(syslog); };
log { source(src); destination(messages); filter(syslog); };



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