[syslog-ng] Parsing tab characters

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:00 -0400, Norman Elton wrote:
> We've configured a host to send syslogs to our central repository
> running syslog-ng 2.0.3. This particular host is sending tab-delimited
> entries. The normal syslogd daemon parses and saves the messages
> correctly. Syslog-NG seems to save them encoded as \011.
> 
> Can syslog-ng be configured to save the decoded ASCII characters? Or
> can the messages be shoved through something like sed to be massaged
> before saving?

Hmm, I don't remember adding \0 octal encoding to syslog-ng. Are you
sure it is syslog-ng that does this?

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Bazsi