[syslog-ng] importing old syslog-ng messages

[Daniel L. Spells Sr.]

Joe,

I tried catting the whole file to a named pipe, and echoing one line at a
time.  Both methods do the same thing.

Daniel


On Mon, January 5, 2009 04:18, Fegan, Joe wrote:
> 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().
>>
>> --
>> Bazsi
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