On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:22 -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: > On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:41 pm, David Fuchs wrote: > > 22-Mar 17:26 davidfuchs-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at inc_conf.c:495 > > Config error: Regex compile error. ERR=repetition-operator operand invalid > > > > : line 119, col 35 of file > > /usr/local/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.conf RegexFile = "^.?*$" > >
I believe that the problem with this is that this directive is telling the regex engine two conflicting things regarding the number of times a character is to be matched. The '^' symbol is an anchor directive (means (in this context): only match the following pattern if it starts at the begining of a line) The '.' symbol is a pattern directive (means: match any character) The '?' symbol is a repetition directive (means: match the preceding pattern 0 or 1 times). The '*' symbol is also a repetition directive (means: match the preceding pattern any number of times, including 0 times) The '$' symbol is another anchor directive (means: match the preceding pattern only if it stops end of a line) when the regex parser gets to the ?* portion of the regex, it thinks that it is being told to match a "0 or 1 times" any number of times, which doesnt make sense. You could instead, say "^(.?)*$" which (due to the parentheses) tells the '*' directive to relate to the whole '.?' pattern rather than the '?' directive. All this being said, this pattern is a bit redundant. > > So I changed the regex to > > > > RegexFile = "^.*$" This makes more sense anyway, in regex terms. It seems like that should have done the trick, but you could always simplify it even further to ".*" just to make sure, since you are trying to match everything passed to it, correct? -davidc -- If you judge, investigate. -Seneca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 Attend MEDC 2005 May 9-12 in Vegas. Learn more about the latest Windows Embedded(r) & Windows Mobile(tm) platforms, applications & content. Register by 3/29 & save $300 http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6883&alloc_id=15149&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
