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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I'm a fairly new Varnish user running 3.0.2 revision 55e70a4. We are trying to setup varnishlog daemon on RHEL 5.5 such that it only logs 500 series errors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The daemon is running as: /usr/bin/varnishlog -a -w /var/log/varnish/varnish.log -D -P /var/run/varnishlog.pid -c -m TxStatus:"5\d{2}"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The problem I am having is that the filter appears to be ignored when writing to file, and every single request is logged instead. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I remove the “-w /var/log/varnish/varnish.log” from the list of arguments, the results are of course displayed on-screen, however the filter seems to be honored.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I checked https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/reference/varnishlog.html and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>this isnt called out as known behaviour, so I am trying to figure out, is the -m filter ignored when writing to file or should the above result<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>in only 500 series log entries being written to file?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>