varnishlog -m -w

[Jason Heffner]

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> On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Geoff Simmons <geoff at uplex.de> wrote:
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> On 08/28/2014 05:42 PM, Jason Heffner wrote:
>> We are running Varnish 3.0.5-1 from the el6 repo. When trying to
>> use varnishlog with the -w option we are noticing that it ignores
>> the -m option.
>> 
>> For instance
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>> varnishlog -a -w /var/log/varnish/varnish.log -m TxStatus:503
> 
> In my experience, -m in Varnish 3 does not filter at all unless you also
> provide -b or -c for backend or client transactions, respectively.
> It's unrelated to -w.
> 
> Since you're evidently looking for client transactions including
> responses with status 503, try this:
> 
> $ varnishlog -c -a -w /var/log/varnish/varnish.log -m TxStatus:503
> 
> (BTW, this has all been greatly improved in Varnish 4.)
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> 
> HTH,
> Geoff
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Sorry, I had missed your response last week. I tried 

varnishlog -c -a -w /var/log/varnish/varnish.log -m TxStatus:503

and that still will log all entries to varnish.log. I actually want to do a more complicated match on several errors and this was what I used to recreate the problem to rule out that pattern match. 

I do want to move to Varnish 4 at some point but still working on re-creating all the rules.