[syslog-ng]Backslash-escaped quotes in message strings

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:53:50PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When a single (') or double (") quote appears in a syslog message,
> this quote gets escaped with a backslash by syslog-ng, which results
> in pretty ugly output, different from what the standard Linux
> sysklogd does (this doesn't change the message).
> 
> Can this be considered a bug (or is it a feature)?

this can be controlled by template_escape()

destination d_file { file("/var/log/messages" template("$MSG\n") template_escape(no)); };

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