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Hi Victor!<br>
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Syslog-ng tries to parse the file sources according to the old BSD syslog protocol (RFC3164). I guess rsyslog doesn't do any parsing by default.<br>
You can disable the default parsing with the "no-parse" flag. This causes that the entire message will be put into the $MESSAGE macro.<br>
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Example:<br>
source {<br>
file("/var/log/squid/access.log" flags("no-parse"))<br>
};<br>
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I've googled the log format for squid access logs:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/LogFormat" id="LPlnk">https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/LogFormat</a><br>
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Here are some examples:<br>
1265939281.764 1 172.16.167.228 TCP_DENIED/403 734 POST http://lbcore1.metacafe.com/test/SystemInfoManager.php - NONE/- text/html<br>
1556260467.596 8 192.168.45.27 TCP_MISS/200 2037 CONNECT 192.168.70.4:443 - HIER_DIRECT/192.168.70.4 -<br>
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In order to parse the unix timestamp from these message, you would need to do some custom parsing additionally.<br>
I can help you with it if you would like to, but maybe you process your logs already on the (receiving) server side.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Gabor<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 6, 2020 13:19<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [syslog-ng] squid access.log to syslog-ng - how?</font>
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<div>Hi,<br>
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<div>I'd like to send all of my squid proxy's log to a syslog-ng server.<br>
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<div>But it doesn't work as I want, because when syslog-ng parses the lines from access.log, it interprets the first field (actually UTC timestamp) as a program.<br>
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<div>(I get the timestamp value in the PROGRAM field).<br>
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<div>But... if I put an rsyslog (installed locally on squid's container) between the squid and syslog-ng servers, I can get correct results.<br>
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<div>Could you help me, how can I omit the rsyslog from the logging and get a usable log?<br>
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<div>Is there a standard way to do it? Or do I need to create an own template in squid.conf for this log?<br>
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<div>regards,<br>
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<div>Victor<br>
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<div>--------------------- What's the vector Victor? :) ---------------------------------------------------<br>
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