Hi David, Thanks for shining some light on this! For the first option, as of what version can you do that?
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:31 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Zippy Zeppoli wrote: > > Hello, >> I am having a problem where I am reading from a file, and it is a JBoss >> application server log, so it logs large stacktraces with many newlines, >> but each line is being interpreted as a log message. >> >> Any ideas on how to fix it? >> > > There are two ways to address this. > > Using imfile you can change the readmode > > by default it reads each line as an independant log entry > > but you can change it so that it holds off on delivering one log message > until it sees the beginning of the next log message (allowing it to combine > multiple lines into one log message), the definition of a new log message > can be a line that doesn't begin with whitespace (which is probably what > you need for Java stack traces) or a blank line between entries (two > newlines back to back) > > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/**imfile.html<http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imfile.html> > > The other approach is to change how your java code is delivering the log. > Instead of just writing it to disk and having another process scrape the > file (and try to interpret the file), you can have your Java code log > directly to syslog, at which point there is no ambguity about what each > message is. > > David Lang > > ______________________________**_________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/**mailman/listinfo/rsyslog<http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog> > http://www.rsyslog.com/**professional-services/<http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/> > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
