[syslog-ng] question on logging templates: strange log lines

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:52 +0100, Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible that there's something wrong with eiter 3.0 version of
> syslog-ng?
> I tried them both, this one
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.0.1/source/syslog-ng_3.0.1.tar.gz
> and this one
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/3.0.1/source/syslog-ng_3.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> By now I also have tried the 2.1.3 version. There, I do not have any of
> the below described issues.
> 
> Another thing that popped up in v.3.0 is it seems to ignore the time zone.
> According to `date +%:z` my test box is configured to +01:00. However,
> syslog-ng 3.0 insists on logging tz -00:00. I tried to work around this by
> defining the time_zone in a source definition. Did not help.
> 
> As I most appreciate the built-in sql logging I think v. 2.1.3 will do
> perfectly fine. So I'll stick with it.

As it seems you seem to have ran into another 3.0 bug that was already
fixed in the git tree. Here's the fix for this one:

http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.0.git;a=commit;h=f94fe1c758d7ad31d044c8b11e63f4dc88dd5541

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Bazsi