[Lognorm] Question on special characters

Fri Dec 2 16:38:16 CET 2011

Thanks Rainer....tried with -vv and even -vvv...got the same info as
below.  I'll move on to other devices and backtrack to this one later.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com
[mailto:lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:34 AM
> To: lognorm
> Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> 
> I'll have a look soon, just wanted to add that -vv gives you even more
info
> (probably more than you ever want ;))
> rainer
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:lognorm-
> > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Lay, James
> > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 4:30 PM
> > To: lognorm
> > Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> >
> > LoL...36 seems a little beefy ;)  Ok...here's the -v output....very
> interesting!
> > Thanks again Rainer.
> >
> > liblognorm: read sample line: 'prefix='
> > liblognorm: read sample line: 'rule=: Test %-:word%) '
> > liblognorm: sample line to add: ': Test %-:word%) '
> >
> > liblognorm: addSampToTree 0 of 16
> > liblognorm: parsed literal: ' Test '
> > liblognorm: buildPTree: begin at 0x8c15030, offs 0
> > liblognorm: case 3.1
> > liblognorm: addPTree: offs 0
> > liblognorm: setPrefix lenBuf 6, offs 0
> > liblognorm: addSampToTree 6 of 16
> > liblognorm: parsed field: '-'
> > liblognorm: got new subtree 0x8c157a0
> > liblognorm: prev subtree 0x8c15030
> > liblognorm: new subtree 0x8c157a0
> > liblognorm: addSampToTree 14 of 16
> > liblognorm: parsed literal: ') '
> > liblognorm: buildPTree: begin at 0x8c157a0, offs 0
> > liblognorm: case 3.1
> > liblognorm: addPTree: offs 0
> > liblognorm: setPrefix lenBuf 2, offs 0
> > liblognorm: end addSampToTree 16 of 16
> > number of tree nodes: 2
> > To normalize: ' Test one) '
> > liblognorm: 0: prefix compare ' ', ' '
> > liblognorm: 1: prefix compare 'T', 'T'
> > liblognorm: 2: prefix compare 'e', 'e'
> > liblognorm: 3: prefix compare 's', 's'
> > liblognorm: 4: prefix compare 't', 't'
> > liblognorm: 5: prefix compare ' ', ' '
> > liblognorm: 6: prefix compare succeeded, still valid
> > liblognorm: 6:trying parser for field '-': 0xb77c4930
> > liblognorm: potential hit, trying subtree
> > liblognorm: 10: prefix compare ' ', ')'
> > liblognorm: 10 returns 1
> > liblognorm: 6 nonmatch, backtracking required, left=1
> > liblognorm: 6 no field, trying subtree char 'o': (nil)
> > liblognorm: 6 returns 1
> > liblognorm: final result for normalizer: left 1, endNode 0xbfc09dd0
> > normalized: '[cee at 115 originalmsg=" Test one) " unparsed-data=" "]'
> > [cee at 115 originalmsg=" Test one) " unparsed-data=" "]
> >
> > James
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com
> > [mailto:lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Rainer
Gerhards
> > > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:19 AM
> > > To: lognorm
> > > Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:lognorm-
> > > > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Lay, James
> > > > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 4:17 PM
> > > > To: lognorm
> > > > Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Rainer....is there anything I can do on my end to
> > troubleshoot or
> > > > make things easier?
> > >
> > > Get me a 36 hr day ;-) Let me check on the original question,
maybe I
> > see it.
> > > Did you try with liblognorm's normalizer tool in verbose (-v) mode
-
> > that is
> > > often quite educating.
> > >
> > > Rainer
> > >
> > > >
> > > > James
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com
> > > > [mailto:lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Rainer
> > Gerhards
> > > > > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:54 AM
> > > > > To: lognorm
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry...all of my time has been taken by that journald
proposal. I
> > > > hope to
> > > > > resume regular work next week...
> > > > >
> > > > > rainer
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:lognorm-
> > > > > > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Lay, James
> > > > > > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 3:52 PM
> > > > > > To: lognorm at lists.adiscon.com
> > > > > > Subject: Re: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any movement on this?  I am unable to move forward with rule
> > > > creation for
> > > > > > one of my devices until this is ironed out.  Thank you.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > James
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > From: lognorm-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:lognorm-
> > > > > > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Lay, James
> > > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:32 AM
> > > > > > To: lognorm at lists.adiscon.com
> > > > > > Subject: [Lognorm] Question on special characters
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hey all!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So...I think I'm getting down to the bottom of something
that
> > I've
> > > > had an
> > > > > > issue with.  Here's some tests:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Log contents to pass to normalizer, blick.txt:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Test one)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Rulebase file blick-rulebase:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > prefix=
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rule=: Test one)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > normalizer -r blick-rulebase < blick.txt
> > > > > >
> > > > > > this works, and returns nothing, since no normalizing was
> > required
> > > > (as I
> > > > > > understand it).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now...if I make the below change to the blick-rulebase file:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > prefix=
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rule=: Test %-:word%)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > normalizer -r blick-rulebase < blick.txt
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [cee at 115 originalmsg=" Test one)" unparsed-data=" "]
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then it looks like something isn't working.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If I remove the ")" in both blick.txt and blick-rulebase to
> > reflect:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Test one
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > prefix=
> > > > > >
> > > > > > rule=: Test %-:word%
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > then it works:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > normalizer -r blick-rulebase < blick.txt
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [cee at 115 -="one"]
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This seems to happen with matching %word% within
parenthesis.
> > Is
> > > > there
> > > > > > something I can do to check this on my end?  Thank you.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > James
> > > > >
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