Bazsi's Home Automation blog

As of now the development of the generic rewrite feature has been completed in one of my private git repositories. The new code uses PCRE and I'm somewhat undecided how to move forward with PCRE. For those who might not know PCRE is an implementation of regular expressions and is an acronym for "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions". PCRE adds a lot more features and seems to perform better than its POSIX equivalent. So the situation is as follows: various filters use POSIX regexps rewrite uses PCRE This is not a very consistent combination, thus I'm planning to add PCRE support for filters too. The only question is whether it is needed to have two independent regexp styles in syslog-ng in the long run. If I decide that one of them is enough, then I'd deprecate POSIX style regexps in filters and wouldn't implement POSIX in rewrite rules. This combination would yield a syslog-ng that would give warnings when POSIX-style regular expressions are in use and in a fo

I've spent the good part of last week in Stockholm at a gathering of Nagios users and developers. I was invited to give a talk on syslog-ng and security issues about collecting syslog data centrally as syslog-ng is often used hand-in-hand with Nagios. This was my first time in Sweden and I can say that Swedish people are the most hospitable nation I met so far, and Stockholm is a very nice city. Also op5 , the company organizing the event did their best to make us - the speakers - very welcome. Thanks op5. If you have a chance visit Stockholm I'd recommend to do so.