2015-09-17 9:24 GMT+02:00 Orangepeel Beef <orangepeelb...@gmail.com>:
> Aha!  Thanks.  I actually tried to use the escaping tool on the rsyslog
> website but just ended up with an empty page.

Oh, good to know, so we should look into that. It's very valuable for
such cases...

Rainer
> On Sep 16, 2015 11:29 PM, "Rainer Gerhards" <rgerha...@hq.adiscon.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You need to escape the backslashes inside the string, as such:
>>
>> '1\\.2\\.\\d+\\.\\d+'
>>
>> HTH
>> Rainer
>>
>> 2015-09-17 4:20 GMT+02:00 Orangepeel Beef <orangepeelb...@gmail.com>:
>> > A while back I asked a question and got a working response on how to do
>> > else if  in the rsyslog.conf
>> >
>> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rsyslog/users/9909
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm trying to do something very similar again, but it's not working as
>> I'd
>> > expect it to.
>> >
>> >
>> > if re_match($fromhost-ip, '1\.2\.\d+\.\d+') then {
>> >    blah blah
>> > } else if re_match($fromhost-ip, '2\.3\.\d+\.\d+') then {
>> >     blah blah
>> > }
>> >
>> > However it isn't working, and when i ask it to check the config file with
>> > -N1 its saying there are invalid characters in the regex.
>> >
>> > I've tried multiple different regexes but it doesn't seem to be working.
>> >
>> > (essentially i'm trying to direct logs to different subfolders and
>> scripts
>> > based on their source ip)
>> >
>> > In the past i've done this with hostnames, but we have no reverse dns
>> here
>> > to use.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> >
>> > invalid character ''' in expression
>> > syntax error on token '/'
>> > could not interpret master file
>> >
>> > etc..
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