[syslog-ng] concatenated sendmail messages

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:07 -0500, Fran Loehmann wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:31:52 +0100, Balazs Scheidler said:
> > > This seems to be a sendmail bug then. I don't know why they don't use
> > > the syslog() call in libc.
> > 
> > Actually, the sm_syslog() function in sendmail/conf.c *does* call the
> > libc syslog(), and has for quite some time.  sm_syslog() exists primarily
> > as a wrapper for working around busticated vendor syslogs.
> > 
> > I didn't see any mention of what libc Fran's sendmail is linked against, and
> > thus I can't rule out the possibility that the syslog() call in libc isn't
> > itself buggy.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Sorry for not including this info.
> 
> The system is RHEL4 AS Update 4. It is running Redhat's rpm.
> 
> sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> sendmail-doc-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> sendmail-devel-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> 

This information is not itself enough. You'd need to disassemble the
sm_syslog() call and see what it does. (or anyone with a RHEL 4).

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Bazsi