README.md in remote_syslog-1.6.7 vs README.md in remote_syslog-1.6.7.1
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(`'*.log'`) so the shell passes the raw glob string to remote_syslog (rather
than the current set of matches). This is not necessary for globs defined in
the config file.
+### Excluding files from being sent
+
+Provide one or more regular expressions to prevent certain files from being
+matched.
+
+ exclude_files:
+ - \.\d$
+ - .bz2
+ - .gz
+
+
### Multiple instances
Run multiple instances to support more than one message-specific file format
or to specify unique syslog hostnames.