On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:10 AM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Micah Yoder wrote:
>
> So is something like this possible? I am writing a template with a few
>> parts - a base directory name, the hostname of the originating server,
>> and then the log file name. After defining the template, some
>> conditions for the different files. I just want a different file based
>> on different conditions, without redefining the template. So, something
>> like:
>>
>> template(name="tpltest" type="list") {
>> constant(value="/var/log/")
>> property(name="hostname")
>> constant(value="/")
>> property(name="$.filename")
>> }
>>
>> if $programname == "micah" and $syslogfacility-text == 'local1' then {
>> set $.filename = "loggerstuff"
>> action(type="omfile" Template="tpltest" DirOwner="root"
>> DirGroup="root" FileOwner="root" FileGroup="root" DirCreateMode="0755"
>> FileCreateMode="0644")
>> }
>>
>> if $programname == "puppet-agent" and $syslogfacility-text ==
>> 'local1' then {
>> set $.filename = "puppet"
>> action(type="omfile" Template="tpltest" DirOwner="root"
>> DirGroup="root" FileOwner="root" FileGroup="root" DirCreateMode="0755"
>> FileCreateMode="0644")
>> }
>>
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be parsing in 7.4.4 which I have installed, but I
>> might be doing something wrong. If it isn't possible in this version,
>> is it in 7.5.x or 8.1.x?
>>
>
> This is exactly the type of thing that local variables were designed for.
> But just to check, try doing $! instead of $. the variable will show up as
> part of a JSON output of $! if you do this, but it will let you test if
> this is the problem
>
>
local vars are not in 7.4., but I think the actual problem is a different
one. In the config is:
set $.filename = "loggerstuff"
but it must be
set $.filename = "loggerstuff";
Note the semicolon at the end! It's a quirck, but we couldn't get away
without adding the need for it.
Rainer
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