To answer your original question:

This line of code extracts the search string from the config file:

    ($string[$i], $action[$i], $actionargs[$i],
    $numrows[$i]) = split /\t+/, $_;

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And this line decides if the logfile has a match:

    if ($_ =~ /$string[$str_index]/i) {

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As far as I can tell, if you were to put a regular expression in for your string in the config file, it would directly interpret it as such. This is a direct conflict with your statement that it doesn't take regular expressions.

Have you tried

orchestral.*execution    mail    1

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at all? Because unless I'm missing something (and I sort of skimmed the code so it's of course possible), it sure looks to me like it would work.

In reply to Re^3: question on log_watcher input by marinersk
in thread question on log_watcher input by adewolf38

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