On Sep 20, 2013 12:51 PM, "Paul Raines" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I understand why rule 1002 matches, I just didn't understand why it was
applied to that log line in the first place.  But if all decoders are
applied to all log files, I guess that explains why.  But it seems a very
inefficient design.  When one designates the access_log to be watched, one
should be able to assign/limit what decoders are applied.
>

The rule 1002 does not specify a decoder, so it applies to all messages
(decoded or not).

The only decoder that applies is the one that matches. Run the log message
through ossec-logtest to find out which one that is.

> My regex does have regex in it.  It is the five "."s to match any
character
>

That is not ossec regex.

> I changed it to
>
> <match>HTTP/1.0" 200 </match>
>
> and this seems to work, but I don't understand why my <regex> did not
work.
>

Because it is not ossec regex.

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