[syslog-ng]Bug: nul chars at end of log lines

[W. Borgert]

Hi,

I reported this on 2004-11-24 as Debian bug against version 1.6.4,
but I'm curious, whether problem is known on other platforms, too.
(See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282782)

A nul character at the end of an UDP transferred log message is
included in the actual syslog file.  In the terminal window the
character is shown as ^@.  Two problems: It looks ugly and it
makes the file look "binary" to tools such as grep, which does
not print lines anymore, but says "Binary file matches" :-(

A test script to (< 15 lines of code) reproduce the behaviour
can be downloaded from here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/logtest.py?bug=282782&msg=3&att=1

Don't forget to enable udp() as source, if you run the test.

Cheers, WB