Regression with symlinks in Linux - Page 1

#1 NickJH 10 months ago

/opt/tomcat-onesite/bin
  |                /logs
  |                /etc....
  |-/tomcat-anothersite/bin
  |                    /logs
  |                    /etc....
  |-/tomcat-somewhereelse/bin
  |                      /logs
  |                      /etc....
  |-/tomcat-etc...
  |-/tomcat-logs/onesite -> /opt/tomcat-onesite/logs
                /anothersite -> /opt/tomcat-anothersite/logs
                /somewhereelse -> /opt/tomcat-somewhereelse/logs
                /etc ....

Now, with nxlog-ce-2.9.x or 2.10.x, I could define a path of /opt/tomcat-logs/* and nxlog would start. It wouldn't read any symlinks under it but it would start. Now with any of the 3.x series, nxlog won't even start if there is a symlink directly in /opt/tomcat-logs. I can sort of get by with /opt/tomcat-logs/*/* in that particular case but it doesn't help with another part of the set of the setup where there are valid files in the equivalent or /opt/tomcat-logs at the same time. How or where can I report bugs or regressions?

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#2 konstantinos Nxlog ✓ 10 months ago

#1 NickJH

I originally asked about symlinks in a thread https://nxlog.co/community-forum/t/1518-wildcard-paths-not-working-with-symlinks, but was told that symlinks just didn't work. Pity. But I had a working config which worked around the issue. I'll reproduce the file structure here:/opt/tomcat-onesite/bin | /logs | /etc.... |-/tomcat-anothersite/bin | /logs | /etc.... |-/tomcat-somewhereelse/bin | /logs | /etc.... |-/tomcat-etc... |-/tomcat-logs/onesite -> /opt/tomcat-onesite/logs /anothersite -> /opt/tomcat-anothersite/logs /somewhereelse -> /opt/tomcat-somewhereelse/logs /etc ....Now, with nxlog-ce-2.9.x or 2.10.x, I could define a path of /opt/tomcat-logs/* and nxlog would start. It wouldn't read any symlinks under it but it would start. Now with any of the 3.x series, nxlog won't even start if there is a symlink directly in /opt/tomcat-logs. I can sort of get by with /opt/tomcat-logs/*/* in that particular case but it doesn't help with another part of the set of the setup where there are valid files in the equivalent or /opt/tomcat-logs at the same time. How or where can I report bugs or regressions?

Hi Nick,

NXLog CE is a community driven project, bugs can be flagged at: https://gitlab.com/nxlog-public/nxlog-ce/-/issues

I am wondering if you could work around the issue by excluding the Dir containing symlinks and then adding a second Input module to read specifically from your log files FILE ‘/opt/tomcat-logs/*.log’

<Input in1>
Module im_file
FILE '/opt/tomcat-*/*'
Exclude ‘/opt/tomcat-logs/*’
Recursive TRUE
</Input>

<Input in2>
Module im_file
FILE ‘/opt/tomcat-logs/*.log’
</Input>

Cheers,

Konstantinos