On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 06:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
> David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
>
>> after the first mark message is generated, and these three lines are executed
>>
>> Exec set_var('logcount', 5 );
>> Exec set_var('logcount', ( get_var('logcount') + 1 ) );
>> Exec set_var('maxsize', size($raw_event));
>>
>> why are these two variables undef?
>
> I just tested and it works as expected:
>
> <14>Aug 3 16:48:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
> 16:48:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventReceivedTime":"2015-08-03
>
> 16:48:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":null,"logcount":null}
> <14>Aug 3 16:49:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
> 16:49:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventReceivedTime":"2015-08-03
>
> 16:49:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":291,"logcount":6}
> <14>Aug 3 16:50:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
> 16:50:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventReceivedTime":"2015-08-03
>
> 16:50:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":287,"logcount":6}
were there any events between these three? If so, the logcount variable should
not have been 6 each time, it should have been incremented for the messages in
between the messages
>
> Just to clear up possible confusion:
>
> $logcount refers to a field in the event. get_var() and set_var() operate
> with module variables that are not visible in the event data as a field
> so the following are two different things:
> Exec set_var('logcount', 42);
> vs
> Exec $logcount = 42;
right, I should have used different names to clarify that I understood this.
David Lang
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