Interesting. I didn't know about this technique with exec_template. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:33 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > 2015-06-18 8:31 GMT+02:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: >> >>> There are so many cases where someone needs to override something in the >>> default template (bad hostname, bad programname, etc) that having to >>> create >>> a custom tempalte for each thing gets to be a hassle. >>> >>> I'd like to propose that we have some templates that are exactly the >>> same as >>> the default ones, but that look (for example) for $.hostname and if it's >>> set, use that instead of $hostname. Have this setup for everything in the >>> default template set. >>> >>> I don't know if we dare to do this to the existing templates, or if these >>> would need to be new templates. If new, could they be built-in, or should >>> they be string modules that are explicitly loaded (and if string modules, >>> could they override the default definitions??) >>> >> >> This doesn't sound too trivial. >> > > another approach would be to allow rainerscript to set the variables that > are currently fixed. > > i.e. > > set $hostname = "foo"; > > > 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.
