Hello, Thanks ! It works... Regards, Yann I. Hi, Please use this patch (fix by Viktor Tusa): diff --git a/src/dbparser/pdbtool.c b/src/dbparser/pdbtool.c index 5ce3e79..cde859a 100644 --- a/src/dbparser/pdbtool.c +++ b/src/dbparser/pdbtool.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> +#include <locale.h> #if HAVE_GETOPT_H #include <getopt.h> @@ -618,6 +620,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) usage(); } + setlocale(LC_ALL,""); if (!g_option_context_parse(ctx, &argc, &argv, &error)) { fprintf(stderr, "Error parsing command line arguments: %s\n", error ? error->message : "Invalid arguments"); M On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:39 +0200, Ilas, Yann wrote:

Hello,

I have a small problem with pdbtool. When I try to match this message "> Message message n?2 message 255", I obtain this error : "Error parsing command line arguments: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input". The problem seems to be the "?" which is bad interpreted by pdbtool. But the syslog-ng application has not that problem.

Here is the xml file I used : <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <patterndb version='3' pub_date='2010-07-28'> <ruleset name='test' id='ab-cd-123456789'> <pattern>test</pattern> <rules> <rule provider='yann' id='xxxxx:syslog:abcdef:1234567890:id001' class='system'> <patterns> <pattern>> Message message n?@NUMBER@ message @NUMBER@</pattern> <values> <value name=".classifier.facility">local5</value> <value name=".classifier.severity">notice</value> <value name=".classifier.priority">173</value> </values> </patterns> </rule> </rules> </ruleset> </patterndb>

If I use the pattern "<pattern>> Message message n?@NUMBER@ message @NUMBER@</pattern>", I obtain : $ /opt/syslog-ng/bin/pdbtool match -p patterndb.xml -P test -M '> Message message n?2 message 255' Error parsing command line arguments: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input => It's not OK

If I use the pattern "<pattern>> Message message nx@NUMBER@ message @NUMBER@</pattern>", I obtain : (the diffence is the charactere "x" after the " n") $ /opt/syslog-ng/bin/pdbtool match -p patterndb.xml -P test -M '> Message message nx2 message 255' MESSAGE=> Message message nx2 message 255 PROGRAM=test .classifier.class=system .classifier.rule_id=xxxxx:syslog:abcdef:1234567890:id001 .classifier.facility=local5 .classifier.severity=notice .classifier.priority=173 => It's OK

With syslog-ng and the pattern "<pattern>> Message message n?@NUMBER@ message @NUMBER@</pattern>", I tried to send the same message (with the "?") by using "nc" and it works, ie the message is well interpreted by the application : $ LANG=C date +"<70>%b %d %R:%S server.domain test[1234]: > Message message n?123 message 456" | nc -4 127.0.0.1 514

Why pdbtool can't parse that string ?

Regards,

Yann I.