[syslog-ng] Writing a null character at the end of TCP payload

[Balazs Scheidler]

Hi,

Adding a NUL via the template is difficult as the template compiler works
with zero terminated string, and even though the lexer allows the use of
\x0, this will indicate the end-of-the-string like you have seen it.

Adding a zero byte would be possible by writing a template function
$(format-gelf) and that probably could sit within the json module, reusing
the infrastructure there.

On the other hand, I've checked the GELF specification, and I can't see the
NUL byte being required.

http://graylog2.org/gelf#specs

Are you sure this is the issue?

Bazsi


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Nicolas Fédou <nicolas.fedou at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I need to send a null character at the end of a message on a tcp output...
> But this null is considered to be an end of string.
>
> My use case is sending a GELF message to a graylog's tcp input.
> GELF message is a json syntax quite simple to comply with thanks to
> format-json.
> Graylog needs a null character at the end of a GELF message in TCP but not
> in UDP.
>
> I tried many combination in the template with \x0, echo \x0,
> `global_definition_of_null`, etc...
> The matter is that null character when interpreted is an end of string,
> and is not written in the tcp message.
> I see truncated messages with ngrep.
> Like "a\x0b" gives "a" according to ngrep.
>
> I did not find any option to actually write a null character.
> Do you have any options ?
>
> As Graylog already have clients and librairies I belive they won't remove
> the need for a null character.
> Shall I open an issue on syslog-ng to ask for an option in templates or in
> format-json ?
>
> Regards, Nicolas Fédou.
>
>
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Bazsi
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