[syslog-ng] concatenated sendmail messages

[Fran Loehmann]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007, Balazs Scheidler wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:07 -0500, Fran Loehmann wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:31:52 +0100, Balazs Scheidler said:
> > > > This seems to be a sendmail bug then. I don't know why they don't use
> > > > the syslog() call in libc.
> > > 
> > > Actually, the sm_syslog() function in sendmail/conf.c *does* call the
> > > libc syslog(), and has for quite some time.  sm_syslog() exists primarily
> > > as a wrapper for working around busticated vendor syslogs.
> > > 
> > > I didn't see any mention of what libc Fran's sendmail is linked against, and
> > > thus I can't rule out the possibility that the syslog() call in libc isn't
> > > itself buggy.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Sorry for not including this info.
> > 
> > The system is RHEL4 AS Update 4. It is running Redhat's rpm.
> > 
> > sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> > sendmail-doc-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> > sendmail-devel-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> > sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> > 
> 
> This information is not itself enough. You'd need to disassemble the
> sm_syslog() call and see what it does. (or anyone with a RHEL 4).

Thank you. For now I have left it as unix-dgram and will see if
I cannot figure something out with disassembling sm_syslog(). 

Best Regards,
Fran