[syslog-ng]funny character is being inserted into each log line + perm(-1) n ot working

Rule, Ted syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:50:03 -0000


The ^@ isn't really 'funny', per se; it's a representation of Ctrl-@
which in turn is actually the null character.

Hence I suspect syslog-ng is safely mangling a null somewhere
into a readable representation before writing it to the log file.

Quite whose fault this is, is another matter.


Ted.



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