[syslog-ng] Truncated Messages when using templates

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:33 -0500, Ivan Stegic wrote:
> Hello everyone…
> 
>  
> 
> We have chosen syslog-ng for our corporate application’s central
> logging daemon and are very happy with it so far. Just one problem:
> truncated messages.
> 
>  
> 
> We are running syslog-ng 1.6.11-1 on a Fedora 5 Intel Xeon box. We
> have an application specific template that we are logging information
> for into a MySQL 5.0.22 database. If we ever try to log a message that
> is more than 10674 characters in length, the message is truncated. We
> expect to only log this large sized message when the DEBUG level of
> our application is switched to EXTREMELY_HIGH. Now, although this
> probably won’t happen often, it will be at that point that we would
> most need that information! If the message is logged to a file, the
> truncation does NOT occur. Does anyone have any insight into this? I
> would appreciate a push in the right direction for more information,
> or maybe even a patch of some sort?
> 

Hmm... macro expansion uses the value for log_msg_size() for determining
the format buffer size. What is your setting?

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Bazsi