[rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 08:19:09 CET 2010


2010/1/15 Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/15 Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci at p6m7g8.com>:
>> Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> =====
>>>> :programname, contains, "NetworkManager" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>>>> ~
>>>> :programname, contains, "wpa_supplicant" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>>>> ~
>>>> =====
>>
>> 1) rsyslogd always pukes on itself if the config file doesn't parse.
>>    not new.
>>
>> 2) Its documented that selectors syntax is not a stable API / config
>> file syntax, though, the maintainer should have noted it in UPDATING.
>> I would have hit this tomorrow myself.
>>
>
> You forgot the part, where I said that I remove those lines and
> rsyslog still doesn't log anything.

And the fact that if it fails to parse, it should complain loudly and
not fail silently.

Anyway, let's see what Rainer has to say.

Michael


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