[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng seems to be not parsing correctly if the PROGRAM macro parsing fails.

Vincent Panel vincent.panel at telindus.be
Mon Jul 27 12:21:17 CEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:14 +0900, Yu Watanabe wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I am using syslog-ng v 2.0.5. 
> 
> However, I am gathering logs from the cisco catalyst switches,
> but when I tried to use the PROGRAM macro it seems not be working properly.
> 
> In Cisco switches , there seems to be messages that program is not included
> in the message that is sent from the device.
> 
> I would like to know how does syslog-ng parses the messages that does not have
> the PROGRAM name included and what would happen if we use the PROGRAM macro
> for these message.
> 
> Following is the proper message:
> 
>   Jul 27 13:17:11 l2swtich 128: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console
>                            ****
>                            There are logs that does not have this part.
> 
> 
See https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40



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