thanks Rainer, I will try that.So that means if I use the default template for forwarding, i think it should just work then. I did actually get a message from an application running on my box(uses standard syslog api) which was around 4K in size rsyslog did the right thing and truncated it to 2K.and logged into the file as per the configured rule.
now I have requirement to support messages up to 5K while logging to the local file, but truncating it to 1K while sending it out. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>wrote: > you need to look at the property replacer, and do something like > %msg:1:950% > in your template. I am not sure, but I think the default template already > does this. Did you experience oversize messages on a receiver? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sayan Chowdhury > > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:36 PM > > To: rsyslog-users > > Subject: [rsyslog] limiting message size while forwarding messages > > > > Hello All,RFC 3164 says that max rsyslog message length is 1024 bytes. > > Rsyslog version 4.2.0 which I am using, is compliant to rfc 5424 and > > has a > > default max message size of 2K. > > Now, I don't want to restrict the size while receiving messages.However > > when > > I forward message out of the box, I want to truncate it > > to 1K, as I am not sure what implementations I will have to interop > > with. > > I could not find an easy way to do this. $MaxMessageSize seems to > > control > > both sending and receiving. > > Is there a way in which I can achieve this? > > Regards, > > Sayan > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
