[syslog-ng]replacing part of prog name with hostname

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:05:34PM -0800, Nate Campi wrote:
> I have syslog-ng 1.5.24 on solaris 8, reading from /etc/.syslog_door and
> I have a log entry like this:
> 
> Dec 31 13:48:15 larry 6.0[8704]: [ID 702911 local0.warning] [0] Can't
> stat file in FlushFile [news/PointCast]: No such file or directory
> 
> ...but the program name was sent from the app was: "ctlds 6.0[8704]:"
> and syslog-ng replaced the first part of the messed up program name with
> the host's name. 
> 
> In the next version, can syslog-ng "learn" that it don't get a hostname
> from solaris ever and that the entire text coming in is actually the log
> message? I'm losing information this way. I wonder how many other apps
> split up the program name and lose data - most people would never know
> as end users.

the problem is ctlds sends a space in the program name tag, thus syslog-ng
interprets 'ctlds' as hostname and '6.0' as program name. as
keep_hostname() is set to no it rewrites originating host name.

Try setting keep_hostname() to yes, it will not touch the hostname then.

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Bazsi
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