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Bug 1350218

Summary: augeas lens fails to parse rsyslog.conf when using ampersand selector
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Nilesh Parmar <nparmar>
Component: augeasAssignee: Pino Toscano <ptoscano>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: YongkuiGuo <yoguo>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.3CC: linl, mkalinin, ptoscano, virt-bugs, xchen
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
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Clone Of: 1350217
: 1660884 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-25 10:51:55 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1350217    
Bug Blocks: 1420851, 1473046, 1649160    
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Description Nilesh Parmar 2016-06-26 14:02:38 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1350217 +++

Cloning this bug for RHEL 7 (augeas-libs-1.4.0-2.el7)

Description of problem:
augeas lens fails to parse rsyslog.conf when using ampersand selector

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
augeas-libs-1.0.0-10.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1] rsyslog.conf file with ampersand selector

$ vi /etc/rsyslog.conf(attached example file)
[...]
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log
local3.err                                              /var/log/nfsen/nfsenlog
& /var/log/also.log


Actual results:
augeas lens fails to parse rsyslog.conf

Expected results:
augeas lens should parse rsyslog.conf

Additional info:
[root@localhost ~]# augtool 
augtool> ls /files/etc/rsyslog.conf
augtool> print /augeas//error
[..]
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error = "parse_failed"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/pos = "25"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/line = "2"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/char = "0"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/lens = "/usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/rsyslog.aug:54.10-.57:"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/message = "Get did not match entire input"
augtool>
Comment 4 Xianghua Chen 2016-10-28 08:05:43 UTC 
Can reproduce it with :
augeas-libs-1.4.0-2.el7.x86_64

Steps:
1. rsyslog.conf file with ampersand selector
# vi /etc/rsyslog.conf
... ...
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log
local3.err                                              /var/log/nfsen/nfsenlog
& /var/log/also.log

2. 
# augtool print /augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/path = "/files/etc/rsyslog.conf"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/mtime = "1477639931"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/lens = "@Rsyslog"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/lens/info = "/usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/rsyslog.aug:61.10-.57:"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error = "parse_failed"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/pos = "3425"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/line = "96"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/char = "0"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/lens = "/usr/share/augeas/lenses/dist/rsyslog.aug:61.10-.57:"
/augeas/files/etc/rsyslog.conf/error/message = "Get did not match entire input"
Comment 7 Pino Toscano 2018-12-19 13:44:05 UTC 
Created attachment 1515594 [details]
rsyslog file

"Cleaned" file from bug 1350217.
Comment 8 Pino Toscano 2018-12-19 13:58:13 UTC 
Created attachment 1515605 [details]
rsyslog file

"Cleaned" file from bug 1350217, now with proper Unix endlines.
Comment 11 Pino Toscano 2019-06-25 10:51:55 UTC 
This bug requires non-trivial work in the Rsyslog lens.
Since there is no demand to fix it, and the development time for RHEL 7 is basically over, closing this bug.

For the RHEL 8 equivalent, see bug 1660884.