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@@ -44,7 +44,13 @@ socket. Should be useful for debugging.</td>
<td><b>fromhost</b></td>
<td>hostname of the system the message was received from
(in a relay chain, this is the system immediately in front of us and
-not necessarily the original sender)</td>
+not necessarily the original sender). This is a DNS-resolved name, except
+if that is not possible or DNS resolution has been disabled.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><b>fromhost-ip</b></td>
+<td>The same as fromhost, but alsways as an IP address. Local inputs
+(like imklog) use 127.0.0.1 in this property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>syslogtag</b></td>
@@ -198,8 +204,33 @@ not become part of it. If you are using regular expressions, the
property replacer will return the part of the property text that
matches the regular expression. An example for a property replacer
sequence with a regular expression is: "%msg:R:.*Sev:. \(.*\)
-\[.*--end%"<br>
-</p>
+\[.*--end%"</p>
+<p>It is possible to specify some parametes after the "R". These are
+comma-separated. They are:
+<p>R,&lt;regexp-type&gt;,&lt;submatch&gt;,&lt;nomatch&gt;,&lt;match-number&gt;
+<p>regexp-type is either "BRE" for Posix basic regular expressions or
+"ERE" for extended ones. The string must be given in upper case. The
+default is "BRE" to be consistent with earlier versions of rsyslog that
+did not support ERE. The submatch identifies the submatch to be used
+with the result. A single digit is supported. Match 0 is the full match,
+while 1 to 9 are the acutal submatches. The match-number identifies which match to
+use, if the expression occurs more than once inside the string. Please note
+that the first match is number 0, the second 1 and so on. Up to 10 matches
+(up to number 9) are supported. Please note that it would be more
+natural to have the match-number in front of submatch, but this would break
+backward-compatibility. So the match-number must be specified after "nomatch".
+<p>nomatch is either "DFLT", "BLANK" or "FIELD" (all upper case!). It tells
+what to use if no match is found. With "DFLT", the strig "**NO MATCH**" is
+used. This was the only supported value up to rsyslog 3.19.5. With "BLANK"
+a blank text is used (""). Finally, "FIELD" uses the full property text
+instead of the expression. Some folks have requested that, so it seems
+to be useful.
+<p>The following is a sample of an ERE expression that takes the first
+submatch from the message string and replaces the expression with
+the full field if no match is found:
+<p>%msg:R,ERE,1,FIELD:for (vlan[0-9]*):--end%
+<p>and this takes the first submatch of the second match of said expression:
+<p>%msg:R,ERE,1,FIELD,1:for (vlan[0-9]*):--end%
<p><b>Also, extraction can be done based on so-called
"fields"</b>. To do so, place a "F" into FromChar. A field in its
current definition is anything that is delimited by a delimiter
@@ -253,6 +284,10 @@ Especially useful for PIX.</td>
<td>format as RFC 3339 date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
+<td><b>date-subseconds</b></td>
+<td>just the subseconds of a timestamp (always 0 for a low precision timestamp)</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
<td><b>escape-cc</b></td>
<td>replace control characters (ASCII value 127 and values
less then 32) with an escape sequence. The sequnce is
@@ -286,4 +321,4 @@ to record severity and facility of a message)</li>
<li><a href="rsyslog_conf.html">Configuration file
syntax</a>, this is where you actually use the property replacer.</li>
</ul>
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+</body></html>