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Earlier this month, I announced the new syslog-ng 3.0 git tree, adding a lot of new features to syslog-ng Open Source Edition. I thought it'd be useful to describe the new features with some more details, so this time I'd write about message parsing. First of all, the message structure was a bit generalized in syslog-ng. Earlier it was encapsulating a syslog message and had little space to anything beyond that. That is, every log message that syslog-ng handled had date, host , program and message fields, but syslog-ng didn't care about message contents. This has changed, a LogMessage became a set of name-value pairs , with some "built-in" pairs that correspond to the parts of a syslog message. The aim with this change is: new name-value pairs can be associated with messages through the use of a parsing. It is now possible to parse non-syslog logs and use the columns the same way you could do it with syslog fields. Use them in the name of files, SQL tables or c...

I've spent my last week in Paris, where this year's Netfilter Workshop was held. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Eric of INL for the organization. It was a wonderful and useful event, and I enjoyed it a lot. It is always nice to meet these wonderful guys. Here are some blog posts about the same event: INL: http://nfws.inl.fr/en/ DaveM: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2008/10/05#nfws2008 Patrick McHardy: http://people.netfilter.org/kaber/weblog/ Finally we could get Transparent Proxying merged, now queued for 2.6.28.

I could finally get my syslog-ng 3.0 OSE tree published at git.balabit.hu. No nightly snapshots yet and I still have to prepare a formal announcement to post on the mailing list, but for those I teased with functions from the 3.0 branch, here it comes. From the top of my head, OSE 3.0 supports: TLS encrypted channels, syslog message rewrite, parse parts of the syslog message and use the parsed parts in macros PCRE and glob filters (in addition to POSIX regexps), support for the new IETF syslog protocols, program sources, new statistics framework that can be queried using UNIX domain sockets etc. I just wanted to get the word out. Success/failure reports would be appreciated.