29 Feb
2016
29 Feb
'16
11:52 p.m.
On 29/02/16 15:59, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
This works. However, the program sometimes produces blank lines its output, and they get logged by rsyslog as well. I want to make rsyslog ignore empty lines. I am trying the following, but it doesn't work:
if $programname == 'progname' and $msg != '\n' then /var/log/prog.log
Does anyone know how to get this to work in rsyslog? This is rsyslog 5 on CentOS 6.
Well, no-one replied to it, but I eventually figured it out myself. Rsyslog converts an empty line (containing just a newline) into a message of one space, so the correct incantation is:
if $programname == 'progname' and $msg != ' ' then /var/log/prog.log
Anand