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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the update guys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I know the version is old, problem is I cannot update it since it’s a black box and we would lose support from EMC. Ill see what I can do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>De la part de</b> Scheidler, Balázs<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> 31 août 2016 05:15<br>
<b>À :</b> Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [syslog-ng] Problem with syslog-ng version 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:red">Courriel provenant de l’externe<br>
ATTENTION, avant d’accéder à une pièce jointe ou à un lien de ce courriel, assurez-vous que celui-ci provient d’un tiers de</span></b><span style="color:red">
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Well, older syslog-ng versions probably folowed the file as it was written, and if only a partial line was present, it was assumed to be the entire message.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Maybe the application is writing that file one-character at a time?<o:p></o:p></p>
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But I agree with Peter, 2.0.9 is probably a decade old, so in order to properly support your problems, you should definitely upgrade to something newer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Alarie, Maxime <<a href="mailto:Alarie.Maxime@hydro.qc.ca" target="_blank">Alarie.Maxime@hydro.qc.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729;background:white">syslog-ng: syslog-ng-2.0.9-27.34.39.2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729">syslog-ng is configured to read from a application log file and then send it to another file in /var/log (tcpdump is not installed, I cant install it on a blackbox so
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729">I have the following in my syslog-ng configuration file:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#EFF0F1">source ESRS {</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#242729;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#EFF0F1">destination esrsfile{ file("/var/log/max.log" );};</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729">The problem I am seeing is that when syslog writes to the outputfile (esrsfile) it truncatedthe lines.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#242729">ex: Source File : [ 0, 6, 1, 1007] 08-29-2016 13:56:28.703 IMPORTANT INFO EDDEMC: Data Item::PMStatus <b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Current
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