[rsyslog] log *.*, except logs by "postgres"

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Am 19.03.2010 00:08, david at lang.hm wrote:
>
>> no,
>> 
>> :programname, :isequal, "postgres" ~
>> *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
>> 
>> each of these is a seperate statement. the ~ as a destination tells
>> rsyslog not to proceed further through the rules for this log entry.
>
> Doesn't work for me.
>
> If I put it like above, nothing gets appended to /var/log/syslog anymore (or 
> any other defined log file).
>
> rsyslogd is running as a process.
>
> If it matters, I'm using 64 bit Debian Lenny (rsyslog 3.18.6).

try it with ' instead of " (I get those mixed up at least 50% of the time, 
rsyslog accepts one and not the other and I can never remember which one)

David Lang