The sregex syntax is VERY limited.
This explains the syntax: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:Regex_Readme

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Jefferson, Shawn
<shawn.jeffer...@bcferries.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m monitoring a directory that contains application files and logs.  I’d
> like to ignore the logs.  The filenames are in the format: blahblah.log.1 or
> blahblah.log.22  (one or two digits indicating the day of the month.)
>
> I thought that this might do it, but doesn’t seem to be working:
>
> <ignore type="sregex">.log.\d+$</ignore>
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>

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