[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and windows

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Tue May 31 17:49:46 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:00 -0500, SOLIS, ALEX wrote:
> Just curious....
> 
> What would happen if TCP transmission was not terminated with an nl or
> nul char?  Would TCP receive buffers fill up and kill communication on
> the server?

of course not. syslog-ng reads the incoming TCP stream and once reached
the message size limit (controllable using log_msg_size) it will flush
the message even if there was no terminating newline.

-- 
Bazsi



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