[syslog-ng] Parsing tab characters

[Evan Rempel]

Norman Elton wrote:
>>  >
>>  > 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?
> 
> I ran a packet capture that shows the incoming syslog packet with a
> single tab character rather than the octal sequence.
> 
> This is a RHEL box. A similarly configured Solaris box is logging the
> packets properly.
> 
> What else could be causing the message to be encoded?

Could this be a problem with gettext?

What version of RHEL, glib2, gettext, eventlog.
What language is the RHEL?

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Evan Rempel