[syslog-ng]Issue with syslog-ng and process-names with spaces

[Nate Campi]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:14:49PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug with syslog-ng-1.6.4 or NTsyslog (which
> generated the syslog record), but we have a problem with records generated
> by some NT applications showing up "corrupted" within syslog-ng. 
> 
> Namely it thinks the hostname is the process name.

This is what bad_hostname() is for.

 Usage: new global option named bad_hostname(), expects a regular
 expression which should match all bad hostnames:

 options { bad_hostname("^ctld$"); };

Just for the record, there's no way for syslog-ng to know the difference
in advance between a hostname and a fsck'd up process name with a space
in it. You have to tell syslog-ng about it.
-- 
Nate

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