[syslog-ng]AIX and repeated message formats - fix?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:39:32PM -0500, Jon Marks wrote:
> Earlier I posted a message asking about whether syslog-ng had standard
> equipment for dealing with a couple of strange message types:
> 
> 1) Messages forwarded by AIX syslogd which contain the string
> 
>    "Message forwarded from [hostname]: " ...
> 
> and 
> 
> 2) Messages of the form:
> 
>    "last message repeated _n times"
> 
> I haven't received any responses. I've read traffic in the mailing list
> archives (e.g. December 2000) regarding the topic, but I haven't found
> any solutions. If I've missed something vital, please help me and let me
> know about it.. I certainly apologize if I haven't been observant enough
> to skim the answers from the available resources.
> 
> I've taken a stab at solving the problem myself, and I thought I'd share it
> with all of you. Those of you who are so much more familiar with the source
> than I, please comment about whether you find I might have broken other
> functionality or adversely affected performance. I'm glad for you suggestions,
> or if this can help somebody else. For my installation, being able to handle
> AIX messages is particularly important.
> 
> My solution is just a simple and straightforward refactoring in
> log.c/parse_log_msg(). A patch against the 1.4.11 source distribution
> is attached to this message. I've tested it only on AIX, but I think
> it ought to work elsewhere since it only adds standard library stuff.
> (Basically, a couple of memcmp's). Some commented-out debugging output
> (to stderr) is there, too, if you'd want to enable it.
> 
> I'll describe the intended effects of this patch:

Are you absolutely sure there's no other way to recognize these messages
other than parsing their contents? To be honest I don't like putting too
much system dependency into syslog-ng.

A compile time/runtime option should be integrated though if there's no
other way.

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Bazsi
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