Hi all,
thanks for the additional comments, much appreciated!
I think an ini-style config file does not provide sufficient expresivness for
what we need to do in rsyslog.
But even worse, when I started to think about the config object model today,
I realized that I had forgotten about one requirement. One that I would
really like to support.
So far, we have rules consisting of actions. Each rule has a single filter.
We can not nest rules/filters.
One thing that was often requested, and very useful from my perspective as
well (also thinking about internal processing) is the ability to nest
filters/actions. Things like
if $source = 'host1' then
do action 1
do action 2
if $msg contains 'error then
do action 3
end if
do action 4
else
do action 5
end if
And so on -- I think you grasp what I mean. Expressing this in XML is
probably impossible (from a readability type of view).
That was one of the reasons I initially thought about creating a full
RainerScript version. Maybe the original idea was not that bad. Maybe just
the current design approach sucks ;)
In any case, I think at least I have fallen back to the begin of the cycle,
where I don't really have an idea where we are heading to...
Rainer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 4:26 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] feedback requested: NEW rsyslog.conf format --
> XML?
>
> Looking at the XML config example I have to admit that I don't really
> like how it looks and feels.
>
> Even david's example looks rather verbose and I also share the concern
> that such an XML file would be hard to edit using e.g. vi.
>
> I just stumbled upon
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1925305/best-config-file-format.
>
> One alternative already discussed here, is YAML.
> Then the site above mentions INI style format, which basically
> everyone knows but question is, if it's flexible enough.
> Has anyone experience with JSON or LUA?
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
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