filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I see the following pop up in the syslog, over and over again:
> 
> 	root at eunetworks-2:/etc/bird# tail -F /var/log/syslog | grep filters
> 	Feb 24 19:34:32 eunetworks-2 bird: filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair
> 	Feb 24 19:34:32 eunetworks-2 bird: filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair
> 	Feb 24 19:34:32 eunetworks-2 bird: filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair
> 	Feb 24 19:34:32 eunetworks-2 bird: filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair
> 	Feb 24 19:34:32 eunetworks-2 bird: filters, line 1360: ~ applied on unknown type pair
> 
> However, tracing down where the error comes from is not so trivial:
> 
> 	root at eunetworks-2:/etc/bird# find /etc/bird -type f | xargs grep include  | wc -l
> 	302
> 	root at eunetworks-2:/etc/bird# du -sh /etc/bird
> 	48M    /etc/bird
> 	root at eunetworks-2:/etc/bird#
> 
> I have a glorious spaghetti spread over almost 50 megabytes of config.
> 
> Anyone got any idea why I'm seeing this warning, and how I can figure
> out what BIRD considers 'line 1360'?

Hi

Well, BIRD is a bit sloppy here and does not track included file names.
Fortunately lines are counted independently for each file, so it is line
1360 in some file.

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Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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