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has caused the Debian Bug report #596152,
regarding rsyslog: forwarded bsd log format sometimes broken
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: rsyslog
Version: 4.4.2-1~bpo50+1
Severity: normal
I use rsyslog to relay messages from old bsd style loggers
(RSYSLOG_TraditionalForwardFormat) and rfc5424 message loggers
(RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat) to one bsd style loghost.
Every old style log message is relayed correctly to the loghost and is written
correctly to the logfile.
Rfc5424 messages are relayed to the loghost without a double point after the
"processname[id]" string.
Additionally rsyslog does not write the double point to the logfile (with
RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat).
I did not jet use any structured data, so I don't know if this is buggy, too.
This behaviour is idential in version 3.18.6 (lenny stable)
Example from the logs:
--- snip ---
Sep 8 22:32:24 new_host old_process[2868] - Hello with new rfc5424 log
Sep 8 22:32:24 old_host new_process[2890]: Hello with old style bsd log
--- snip ---
The way it should be:
--- snip ---
Sep 8 22:32:24 new_host old_process[2868]: - Hello with new rfc5424 log
Sep 8 22:32:24 old_host new_process[2890]: Hello with old style bsd log
--- snip ---
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rsyslog depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages rsyslog recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages rsyslog suggests:
pn rsyslog-doc <none> (no description available)
pn rsyslog-gnutls <none> (no description available)
pn rsyslog-gssapi <none> (no description available)
pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> (no description available)
pn rsyslog-relp <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
>> bts: Explain why you're closing these bugs here:
>> - Bug #596152: rsyslog: forwarded bsd log format sometimes broken
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