[syslog-ng] Fwd: Re: Following a file to generate one syslog message per appended line

Sandor Geller Sandor.Geller at morganstanley.com
Wed Jul 18 11:24:07 CEST 2012


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Terry Burton <terry.burton at gmail.com> wrote:

< snip >

>> > I am wondering whether the file source driver does not treat a lone LF
>> > as a new line and therefore log_fetch_limit(1) is ineffective? I am
>> > about to test this.
>>
>> it should treat one NL (aka LF, ASCII 10) as line terminator. what version
>> of syslog-ng are you using?
>
> Version 3.1.3 on Debian Squeeze, 64 bit.

What are you experiencing exactly? One outgoing UDP packet having
multiple syslog messages or one syslog message having multiple lines
concatenated?


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