I, too, think this is useful. Will look at it as soon as I get the patch. The
b) and c) parts may be a bit harder to integrate if they are not for the
newest devel branch, as I rewrote the parser part of rsyslog. But in any
case, it is worth trying to merge it in.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:38 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] [PATCH] TLS connection check + syslog TAG
> parsing
> 
> for what it's worth, I think that b and c are very useful when dealing
> with strange data sources, and a is probably a bugfix.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sorry, I seem to have overlooked that message. But the mailing list
> processor
> > has stripped the attachment. Could you please re-send to my personal
> mail
> > address.
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> >> Jonathan Bond-Caron
> >> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:43 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [rsyslog] [PATCH] TLS connection check + syslog TAG parsing
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Attached is a patch for 3 things:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> a)      Check that TCP connection is still alive when using TLS
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> b)      Improve TAG parsing so that it ends when it sees a
> >> tab or escape
> >> control character.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> c)       Added configuration directive:  escapecontrolcharactertab
> >>
> >> In rsyslog.conf, you can set:
> >>
> >> $escapeControlCharactersOnReceive on
> >>
> >> $escapeControlCharacterTab off
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> This avoids having a tab being escaped since it is after a viewable
> >> character J
> >>
> >> I'd prefer this being the default behavior but I've left
> >> $escapeControlCharacterTab on as default in case people
> >> expect tabs to be
> >> escaped.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> This is my first GIT patch, hope it works well ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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