Thanks for the time reporting this bug. This definitely doesn't sound correct. Rsyslog shall remove one trailing LF, not many. But given the new appearance of the problem, I assume there is a problem with removing that one whitespace.
I have added an upstream bug tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Biebl [mailto:bi...@debian.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:47 AM > To: 612...@bugs.debian.org; Rainer Gerhards > Cc: Romain Francoise > Subject: Bug#612829: no longer cleans up trailing whitespace > > Hi Rainer, > > this is the first 5.7.x specfic bug report and I've CCed you as you > were asking > for feedback. > > Could you please take a look? > > Thanks, > Michael > On 10.02.2011 23:58, Romain Francoise wrote: > > Package: rsyslog > > Version: 5.7.3-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Before version 5.7.3-1 rsyslog used to clean up any extra whitespace > > present at eol, and it apparently no longer does. For example, smartd > is > > one of the few applications which add an extra newline, before > today's > > upgrade my logs looked like this: > > > > | Feb 10 12:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 28 to 29 > > | Feb 10 19:00:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 30 to 31 > > | Feb 10 19:00:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 28 to 29 > > > > and now they look like this: > > > > | Feb 10 22:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 32 to 31 > > | > > | Feb 10 23:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 31 to 30 > > | > > | Feb 10 23:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SMART > Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 29 to 28 > > > > This is especially annoying because logcheck messages now include > wads > > of unnecessary blank lines as a result... > > > > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
