On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 00:24 -0800, David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > I'm trying out the rsyslog 7.3.6-0adiscon1 package installed from the > > http://ubuntu.adiscon.com/v7-devel/ repository, and I seem to be running > > into strange behavior in the processing order for actions and filters > > defined in "included" configuration files. > > > > After some investigation (including switching from ~ to STOP, and > > from a property-based filter to a ReinerScript filter, etc.), I > > discovered that the issue seems to be that the rules from each > > newly-parsed config file are added to the top of the ruleset list, > > rather than the bottom. (So the rules show up in the expected order > > within each config file, but the "blocks" of rules appear in the wrong > > order.) > > > > > > > Has anyone else noticed this problem? (I did search around for any > > previous discussion of the topic, but wasn't able to find anything....) > > > > My understanding is that the order of multiple include files has always been > undefined. you should not rely on interaction between different files that > are > included to always be in a particular order, either amoung the files or in > relation to entries in the main file. > actualy, it is using glob() using shell expansion order. So they should be sorted. Unfortunately I did not manage to look into the case yesterday and on my way to the conference today. In any case, I'll try to look into this. There is a -I think- related bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411 Rainer > David Lang > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
