[syslog-ng] Multi-line support issue

Satish Patel satish.txt at gmail.com
Wed Jul 17 15:37:35 CEST 2013


Please help me with this and suggest what i can do here. Question is does
Tomcat7 Log4j support multi-line logging?


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tomcat7 log4j sending logs to syslog-ng. I have installed 3.5. look like
> log4j doesn't know about white space, do you have any experience with that?
> but in syslog-ng documents they have mention you can use multi-line-prefix
> to solve this issue but it seem that option doesn't available in 3.5 version
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It's abailable in the git repo, Algernon (cc) may have published binaries.
>>
>> For syslog(transport(udp)) you don't need this flag, as UDP supports
>> multiline just fine. The original sender decides whether it sends the
>> message with newlines or not. What client sends you messages?
>>  On Jul 11, 2013 6:54 PM, "Satish Patel" <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ah!!! where do i download 3.5 OpenSource? could you please point me
>>> out.. also in my case i am using UDP port for source so my syntex would be
>>> like following? right?
>>>
>>> source s_tomcat {
>>>         syslog( transport("udp") multi-line-mode(indented));
>>> };
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> My gosh, I incorrectly remembered a number of vital details, sorry for
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> The syntax has been changed from the flags format, it's like this:
>>>>
>>>> file('tomcat.log' multi-line-mode(indented));
>>>>
>>>> I have actually tried this one, however I have one other bad news, this
>>>> feature missed 3.4 so it's only available in the 3.5 branch. IIRC Algernon
>>>> already published 3.5 binaries for Debian/Ubuntu distros.
>>>>  On Jul 11, 2013 4:22 PM, "Satish Patel" <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is my source declaration and i have put flags which you have
>>>>> mentioned.
>>>>>
>>>>> source s_tomcat {
>>>>>         syslog( transport("udp") flags(indent-multi-line));
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> I got following error when i am trying to put flags
>>>>>
>>>>> Error parsing afsocket, Unknown flag indent-multi-line in
>>>>> /usr/local/syslog-ng-3.4.2/etc/syslog-ng.conf at line 54, column 33:
>>>>>
>>>>>         syslog( transport("udp") flags(indent-multi-line) );
>>>>>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't see the source declaration, it must be something along the
>>>>>> lines
>>>>>> of:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> source s_tomcat {
>>>>>>     file("/var/log/tomcat/xxx.log" flags(indent-multi-line));
>>>>>> };
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 12:54 -0400, Satish Patel wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi Balazs,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > what is your thought about my config? did you see?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> >         This is what i have configured and no luck with it.. can you
>>>>>> >         suggest what i am missing?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >         destination d02_tc74_log
>>>>>> >         {
>>>>>> file("/logs/server1/tomcat7.4/catalina_$YEAR$MONTH$DAY.log"
>>>>>> >         template("$(indent-multi-line ${MESSAGE})\n")
>>>>>> >         template(t_tomcatlog) owner("root") group("root") perm(0644)
>>>>>> >         dir_perm(0755) create_dirs(yes)); };
>>>>>> >         filter server1 { host("server1.example.com") };
>>>>>> >         log {
>>>>>> >           source (s_tomcat);
>>>>>> >           filter (server1);
>>>>>> >           filter (tomcat7_4);
>>>>>> >           destination (d02_tc74_log);
>>>>>> >         };
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >         On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Satish Patel
>>>>>> >         <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >                 How do i use indented-multi-line ? I meant where do
>>>>>> i
>>>>>> >                 configure it? I tried but my syslog-ng doesn't
>>>>>> >                 recognizing this option i have syslog-ng 3.3.7
>>>>>>  could
>>>>>> >                 you give me example where and how do i check whether
>>>>>> >                 it is supported or not
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                 On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Balazs Scheidler
>>>>>> >                 <bazsi77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >                         This looks.like the format that should be
>>>>>> >                         supported by indented-multi-line
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                         On Jul 5, 2013 9:33 PM, "Satish Patel"
>>>>>> >                         <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >                                 Here is my tomcat catalina.out log
>>>>>> >                                 file sample. See there is a tab
>>>>>> space
>>>>>> >                                 in logs
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                 2013-06-27 05:30:00,065
>>>>>> >                                 [EDISN-Scheduler_Worker-2] ERROR
>>>>>> >                                 com.example.edisn.sftp.SftpSession -
>>>>>> >                                 Exception attempting to work with an
>>>>>> >                                 SFTP Session: connection is closed
>>>>>> by
>>>>>> >                                 foreign host
>>>>>> >                                 2013-06-27 05:30:00,066
>>>>>> >                                 [EDISN-Scheduler_Worker-2] ERROR
>>>>>> >                                 org.quartz.core.JobRunShell - Job
>>>>>> >                                 EDISN.CTMS_Upload threw an unhandled
>>>>>> >                                 Exception:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.example.edisn.EdisnRuntimeException: Exception attempting to work with
>>>>>> an SFTP Session: connection is closed by foreign host
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.example.edisn.sftp.SftpSession.doSession(SftpSession.java:64)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.example.edisn.EdisnSession.exec(EdisnSession.java:13)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.example.ctms.CtmsScheduledJob.executeInternal(CtmsScheduledJob.java:27)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.QuartzJobBean.execute(QuartzJobBean.java:86)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:202)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >                                 org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> $WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:525)
>>>>>> >                                 Caused by:
>>>>>> >                                 com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException:
>>>>>> >                                 connection is closed by foreign host
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Unknown Source)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Unknown Source)
>>>>>> >                                         at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> com.example.edisn.sftp.SftpSession.doSession(SftpSession.java:45)
>>>>>> >                                         ... 5 more
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:27 PM,
>>>>>> Balazs
>>>>>> >                                 Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >                                         No, I implemented a
>>>>>> different
>>>>>> >                                         multiline style support
>>>>>> first
>>>>>> >                                         (that is not in pe), where
>>>>>> >                                         continuation lines are
>>>>>> >                                         indicated by indentation,
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> >                                         mime.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                         Iirc tomcat has this kind of
>>>>>> >                                         log file. Can you show a
>>>>>> >                                         sample log entry?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                         The infrastructure for
>>>>>> >                                         multiline-prefix is also
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> >                                         but not added yet.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                         Let me see the sample, I'll
>>>>>> >                                         tell if the current solution
>>>>>> >                                         works or not.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                         On Jul 5, 2013 8:24 PM,
>>>>>> >                                         "Satish Patel"
>>>>>> >                                         <satish.txt at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> >                                                 Thanks for reply
>>>>>> >                                                 Balazs,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                 You mean say this
>>>>>> >                                                 feature is available
>>>>>> >                                                 in Open Source
>>>>>> Edition
>>>>>> >                                                 (OSE) 3.4? Once
>>>>>> after
>>>>>> >                                                 specifying flag
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> "indented-multi-line"
>>>>>> >                                                 i can use
>>>>>> >                                                 multi-line-prefix?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> >                                                 1:26 PM, Balazs
>>>>>> >                                                 Scheidler
>>>>>> >                                                 <bazsi77 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> >                                                 wrote:
>>>>>> >                                                         You have
>>>>>> found
>>>>>> >                                                         the PE
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> documentation
>>>>>> >                                                         but I have
>>>>>> >                                                         already
>>>>>> ported
>>>>>> >                                                         this to the
>>>>>> >                                                         OSE tree and
>>>>>> >                                                         has been
>>>>>> >                                                         released as
>>>>>> >                                                         part of 3.4.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                         You have to
>>>>>> >                                                         specify
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> indented-multi-line as a flag to the file source.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                         On Jul 5,
>>>>>> 2013
>>>>>> >                                                         6:28 PM,
>>>>>> >                                                         "Satish
>>>>>> Patel"
>>>>>> >                                                         <
>>>>>> satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                                 We
>>>>>> >                                                                 have
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> tomcat
>>>>>> >                                                                 shop
>>>>>> >                                                                 and
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> everyone know tomcat has a java call trace in logs with tab space but
>>>>>> syslog-ng doesn't know about it and printing lines as a new line. I have
>>>>>> read here syslog-ng 3.x does support multi-line logs
>>>>>> http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-pe-4.0-guides/en/syslog-ng-pe-v4.0-guide-admin-en/html/reference_source_syslog.html
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >                                                                 But
>>>>>> >                                                                 does
>>>>>> >                                                                 this
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> feature available in Open Source syslog-ng? If yes then why its not working
>>>>>> for me?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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