[rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released

[Michael Biebl]

2010/1/15 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
>> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl
>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:42 AM
>> To: rsyslog-users
>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released
>>
>> 2010/1/15  <david at lang.hm>:
>>
>> > I think I just realized the problem
>> >
>> > you have
>> >
>> > :programname, contains, "NetworkManager" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>> > ~
>> > :programname, contains, "wpa_supplicant" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>> > ~
>> >
>> > when you should have
>> >
>> > :programname, contains, "NetworkManager" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>> > & ~
>> > :programname, contains, "wpa_supplicant" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>> > & ~
>> >
>> > give that a shot.
>>
>> The error message goes away but rsyslog still logs nothing.
>>
>> Interesting fact is, that the above syntax worked fine with 4.4.2
>
> I don't think so, you probably ignored (did not record?) the error message.
> The tilde character is an action, and an action needs to be placed after a
> filter. So a tilde character just on its own in a single line is definitely a
> syntax error. The engine would not know what to do with such a line.
>
> If it generated no error in v4.4.2, *that* was a bug (will verify later).

It definitely worked with 4.4.2, i.e. the
NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant messages were discarded.

Will have to check if rsyslog wrote any error message in the syslog.

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