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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index 11f80a2d..03b15c17 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ once they are implemented, it can make very much sense </tr> <tr> <td>regex</td> -<td>Compares the property against the provided regular +<td>Compares the property against the provided POSIX regular expression.</td> </tr> </tbody> @@ -547,7 +547,11 @@ code), this can be done easily by:</p> <p>This filter will match when the message contains the string "ID-4711". Please note that the comparison is case-sensitive, so it would not match if "id-4711" would be contained in the message.</p> -<p>Getting property-based filters right can sometimes be +<p><code><b>:msg, regex, "fatal .* error"</b></code></p> +<p>This filter uses a POSIX regular expression. It matches when the +string contains the words "fatal" and "error" with anything in between +(e.g. "fatal net error" and "fatal lib error" but not "fatal error" as +two spaces are required by the regular expression!).</p><p>Getting property-based filters right can sometimes be challenging. In order to help you do it with as minimal effort as possible, rsyslogd spits out debug information for all property-based filters during their evaluation. To enable this, run rsyslogd in |