Michael, Fix now in git, links at the bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169 Please let me know if it works for you (the patch is a bit trickier than it looks, so confirmations would be good). Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:03 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released > > 2010/1/15 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>: > > Michael, > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl > >> >> > :programname, contains, "NetworkManager" > >> /var/log/NetworkManager.log > >> >> > ~ > >> >> Interesting fact is, that the above syntax worked fine with 4.4.2 > >> > > >> > I don't think so, you probably ignored (did not record?) the error > >> message. > >> > The tilde character is an action, and an action needs to be placed > >> after a > >> > filter. So a tilde character just on its own in a single line is > >> definitely a > >> > syntax error. The engine would not know what to do with such a > line. > >> > > >> > If it generated no error in v4.4.2, *that* was a bug (will verify > >> later). > >> > >> It definitely worked with 4.4.2, i.e. the > >> NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant messages were discarded. > > > > I used a Debian 5 I had available here, ran apt-get update/upgrade > and > > compiled rsyslog 4.4.2 from scratch. Then I entered the first line > into the > > config and restarted rsyslog. > > > > After doing so, I had the relevant errors in /var/log/syslog. > > > > Two observations: > > > > a) the commands were flagged as invalid by 4.4.2 > > b) error messages are logged (at least up to 4.4.2) > > Yeah, false alarm from my side, sorry. > > 4.4.2 writes an error message about using incorrect syntax and the log > messages are not dropped when using a simple "~". Everything as it > should be :-) > So this was all a red herring. > > The real problem, as you already noticed, the non-working pipe which > causes 5.3.6 to hang and not process any further message. > > Michael > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
