Mailing List Archive: getting error on IncludeConfig

getting error on IncludeConfig

Dec 8, 2020, 7:34 AM

Post #1 of 3 (334 views)

Seeing errors
rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
on or before line 2: invalid character '$' in object definition - is there
an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
on or before line 2: invalid character '/' in object definition - is there
an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
on or before line 2: syntax error on token 'etc' [v8.1901.0 try
https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]

on file
# ls -la lin/03-main-queue.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 8 09:30 lin/03-main-queue.conf ->
../host/lin/main-queue.conf
where the file contains
# cat host/lin/main-queue.conf
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/global/includes/target-main.inc
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-size-small.inc
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-disk-1k-small.inc
)
and all configuration parts are accessible and formatted properly.

Change of host/lin/main-queue.conf to contain content of all the parts in
the file is an workaround for the issue.

What can be the root cause for this issue? Is there any limitation in
nesting of IncludeConfig?

Running Debian10 with rsyslog 8.1901.0-1.

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Re: getting error on IncludeConfig [ In reply to ]

rsyslog at lists

Dec 8, 2020, 8:02 AM

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start rsyslog with -o /path/to/new/file and post the config file it produces.

This is a fairly recent option and it outputs the config file as rsyslog sees it
(with original comments stripped out), so it makes it easier to see what rsyslog
is looking at to find the problem.

David Lang

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Peter Viskup via rsyslog
wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:34:07 +0100
> From: Peter Viskup via rsyslog <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com>
> To: rsyslog-users <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com>
> Cc: Peter Viskup <skupko.sk@gmail.com>
> Subject: [rsyslog] getting error on IncludeConfig
>
> Seeing errors
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: invalid character '$' in object definition - is there
> an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: invalid character '/' in object definition - is there
> an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: syntax error on token 'etc' [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>
> on file
> # ls -la lin/03-main-queue.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 8 09:30 lin/03-main-queue.conf ->
> ../host/lin/main-queue.conf
> where the file contains
> # cat host/lin/main-queue.conf
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/global/includes/target-main.inc
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-size-small.inc
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-disk-1k-small.inc
> )
> and all configuration parts are accessible and formatted properly.
>
> Change of host/lin/main-queue.conf to contain content of all the parts in
> the file is an workaround for the issue.
>
> What can be the root cause for this issue? Is there any limitation in
> nesting of IncludeConfig?
>
> Running Debian10 with rsyslog 8.1901.0-1.
>
>
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Re: getting error on IncludeConfig [ In reply to ]

rsyslog at lists

Dec 9, 2020, 11:03 AM

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It is bug of main_queue() not supporting division into more files. Calling
action() does support it.
Opened bug report: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/4484

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Peter

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:34 PM Peter Viskup <skupko.sk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seeing errors
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: invalid character '$' in object definition - is there
> an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: invalid character '/' in object definition - is there
> an invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
> rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/03-main-queue.conf,
> on or before line 2: syntax error on token 'etc' [v8.1901.0 try
> https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>
> on file
> # ls -la lin/03-main-queue.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 8 09:30 lin/03-main-queue.conf ->
> ../host/lin/main-queue.conf
> where the file contains
> # cat host/lin/main-queue.conf
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/global/includes/target-main.inc
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-size-small.inc
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/lin/includes/queue-lin-disk-1k-small.inc
> )
> and all configuration parts are accessible and formatted properly.
>
> Change of host/lin/main-queue.conf to contain content of all the parts in
> the file is an workaround for the issue.
>
> What can be the root cause for this issue? Is there any limitation in
> nesting of IncludeConfig?
>
> Running Debian10 with rsyslog 8.1901.0-1.
>
> --
> Peter
>
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