[syslog-ng] Fwd: bug in syslog-ng 3.2 and 3.3

[Gergely Nagy]

The mail below was originally sent to one of our internal addresses, but
since it's a bug report against 3.2 and 3.3, it is better to have it
posted here too (with original files attached):

Da Mota Sam <da.mota.sam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think I found a bug in syslog-ng starting from version 3.2.
>
> You will find in attachment the smallest configuration files for which
> the bug appears.
> These files must be placed in /etc/syslog-ng "to work".
>
> The problem seems to be in a bad handling of characters with accents.
>
> With the attached configuration files, when syslog-ng receives a
> message containing just "1 é"
> (for exemple by calling "logger '1 é') one should expect the creation
> of a file /var/log/message_with_id_matched
> This file isn't actually created.
>
> The given file pattern_rules.xml contains two patterns. If I remove
> one of them, then I get the creation of the file
> /var/log/message_with_id_matched, which makes me think that one of the
> pattern shadows the other one.
>
>
> About:
> I got this erroneous behaviour with:
>    - syslog-ng 3.2.4 on debian wheezy (from debian packages)
>    - syslog-ng 3.2.4 on debian lenny (from syslog-ng source code)
>    - syslog-ng 3.2.4 on debian squeeze (from syslog-ng source code)
>    - syslog-ng 3.2.5 on debian squeeze (from syslog-ng source code)
>    - syslog-ng 3.3.1 on debian wheezy (using the packages of debian sid)
>
> the bug was not present on syslog-ng 3.1 on debian squeeze (from
> debian packages)
>
> Could you please check that you get the same errors, and let me know about it?
>   (so I could bug report this to the debian team if it is not a syslog-ng bug).
>
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Samuel Da Mota

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