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Trouble with rsyslog config to filter dnsmasq-log-spam

Hi,

I'm sure this is really easy once you know how to do it :-)

My syslog is filling up with DHCP lease statements from dnsmasq, and I would like to move all these messages to a separate log.
It looks really easy according to rsyslog configuration, but I just can't get it to work the way it should.

The messages I would like to filter look like the following:

Code:

Jan  3 20:10:07 Majestix dnsmasq-dhcp[6614]: DHCPREQUEST(bond0) 192.168.1.81 10:68:ff:ff:ff:ff 

Jan  3 20:10:07 Majestix dnsmasq-dhcp[6614]: DHCPACK(bond0) 192.168.1.81 10:ff:3f:ff:ff:ff Nexus4

Jan  3 20:10:32 Majestix dnsmasq-dhcp[6614]: DHCPREQUEST(bond0) 192.168.1.93 70:de:ff:ff:ff:04 

Jan  3 20:10:32 Majestix dnsmasq-dhcp[6614]: DHCPACK(bond0) 192.168.1.93 70:ff:ff:ff:ff:04 iPad-AF

(yes, out of general paranoia I have butchered the MAC addresses slightly:) )

What I've tried in the config is a plethora of variations over this theme:

Code:

if $programname == 'dnsmasq-dhcp' and $syslogseverity <= '6' then /var/log/dnsdhcp.log

#if $programname == 'dnsmasq-dhcp' and $syslogseverity <= '6' then ~

But nothing happens in dnsdhcp.log and everything still comes into /var/log/messages..

Anyone care to give me a hint to where I'm heading in the wrong direction?

-y1

Why not just set dnsmasq to log to its own file?

From the dnsmasq manpage...

Quote:

--log-facility=<facility>
Set the facility to which dnsmasq will send syslog entries, this defaults to DAEMON, and to LOCAL0 when debug mode is in operation. If the facility given contains at least one '/' character, it is taken to be a filename, and dnsmasq logs to the given file, instead of syslog....

Thanks for answering!

I guess I could, but that would mean all dnsmasq entries would go there, also the critical ones prohibiting network operation. What I'd like to do is just filter out the daily noise, but keep the serious stuff so that I can trigger alerts on it.

The only way to do that I still believe to be filtering all dnsmasq entries with severity _LESS_ than the informational ones to go out, but let rsyslog be the decider of all these things.

Besides, I'll have to do this for a few remote apps as well, so I'd better figure out how to do it anyway :-)

-y1