[syslog-ng] importing old syslog-ng messages

[Fegan, Joe]

Then I would guess that whatever method you are using to send the old log files to syslog-ng is stripping the newline characters, making it look like one gigantic message.

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Daniel L. Spells Sr.
Sent: 29 December 2008 15:59
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] importing old syslog-ng messages

I have pushed that number to 90K, and get the same message, except the
"log_msg_size=XXXX" changes to the what ever value the XXXX is set to in
the log, and nothing is written the the database.


On Mon, December 29, 2008 05:36, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:44 -0600, Daniel L. Spells Sr. wrote:
>
>> I am getting:
>>
>>
>> "syslog-ng[18859]: Message length overflow, line is split,
>> log_msg_size=4096"
>>
>> When I try to cat the log files to the named pipe.  It repeats until it
>>  completes the lines in the log file.
>>
>> This is on a base install on a Suse box.
>>
>>
>>
>
> the message above says that you have messages over 4096  bytes in length.
> increase log_msg_size().
>
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> Bazsi
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