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whats wrong with this inputs.conf configuration

ma_anand1984
Contributor

blacklist = ((\.(tar|gz|bz2|tar.gz|tgz|tbz|tbz2|zip|z)$)|(*logger_console*|*logger_soap*|*logger_batch-documents*))

Error Message

ERROR TailingProcessor - Invalid regular expression: in stanza due to: Regex: (*VERB) not recognized or
malformed, ignoring this stanza.

Anand

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Is it here?

tar.gz->tar\.gz
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ma_anand1984
Contributor

@HiroshiSatoh below is the summary of error message i see.

ERROR TailingProcessor - Invalid regular expression: in stanza due to: Regex: (*VERB) not recognized or
malformed, ignoring this stanza.

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