2015-02-03 23:28 GMT+01:00 Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 2015-02-03 0:30 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Just installed the very latest 8.7.0 on one machine and spotted this
> in
> > >> the
> > >> log:
> > >>
> > >> Feb  2 23:24:27 logsene-reports rsyslogd-2207: error during parsing
> file
> > >> /etc/rsyslog.conf, on or before line 55: warnings occured in file
> > >> '/etc/rsyslog.conf' around line 55 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207
> ]
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > didn't you get the other error message? This is what I see:
> >
> > 2015-02-03T10:10:14.076337+01:00 ubuntu1404esp rsyslogd-2184: action '*'
> > treated as ':omusrmsg:*' - please change syntax, '*' will not be
> supported
> > in the future [v8.8.0.master try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2184 ]
> > 2015-02-03T10:10:14.146723+01:00 ubuntu1404esp rsyslogd-2207: error
> during
> > parsing file bluecoat.conf, on or before line 7: warnings occured in file
> > '/bluecoat.conf' around line 7 [v8.8.0.master try
> > http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
> >
>
>
> I did see this.  I didn't know how to interpret it.
> May I change a slight change in wording?  A bit more direct for people less
> familiar with (r)syslog-specifics?
>
> e.g.
> action '*' treated as ':omusrmsg:*' - please change syntax, '*' will not be
> supported in the future
>
> vs.
>
> action '*' treated as ':omusrmsg:*' - please use ":omusrmsg:" syntax
> instead, '*' will not be supported in the future
>
> This is a bit more direct and informative IMHO.  It's not telling me just
> that there is a problem - it's telling me what to do to fix it.
>

Will do ... but I have to admit I had to read it four times to see the
difference in wording ;) To *me* it sounds absolutely the same (that's just
another incarnation of the "It's better if others write doc" problem). I
had to compare it word-by-word to find the difference.

Rainer
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