Depends on what you are trying to achieve:

:msg, contains, "some string" stop

(on one line) will discard any message containing "some string".

:msg, contains, "some other string" /var/log/messages
& stop

(across two lines) will cause any message containing "some other
string" to be logged in messages and *then* discard it from further
processing.

IIRC if you omit the "& stop" then it is possible that the message
will match further down the config and be logged in multiple places -
possibly desirable for security related messages), so you could do
something like this:

:msg, contains, "some other string" /var/log/messages
:msg, contains, "some other string" /var/log/secure
& stop


On 10 August 2015 at 02:19, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:44:51 -0700
> Doug H. wrote:
>
>> > So basically I replace the ~ with & stop ?
>>
>> I don't remember why I put it on the second line but I suspect I found
>> something via google.
>
> Well, when I try it, rsyslogd won't start, so it hates
> something about my file.
>
> I guess I'll stick with the deprecated syntax :-).
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