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

Dan Egli dan at newideatest.site
Fri Apr 9 00:04:48 UTC 2021


I don't know how that keeps happening, but ignore that one. It's 
incomplete. The NEXT message is complete. Sorry.

On 4/8/2021 6:02 PM, Dan Egli wrote:
> I'm still hoping someone on this list can help me out. My syslog-ng 
> configuration seems to be mixing things up. I am TRYING to separate 
> things, so that anything from sshd goes to /var/log/sshd/sshd.log, 
> anything from samba goes to /var/log/samba/log.samba, and anything 
> ELSE hitting the syslog is going to /var/log/messages. My problem is, 
> the sshd log seems to be picking up samba messsages, and the main log 
> (/var/log/messages) is picking up them BOTH. But I have filters in my 
> config to say this one, not that one.
>
> If anyone is willing to help me out, the following files are live on 
> my web server:
> https://www.newideatest.site/syslog-conf         The current 
> syslog-ng.conf
> https://www.newideatest.site/system_log          Current /var/log/messages
> https://www.newideatest.site/syslog-


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