On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 10:17 +0100, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> 2015-02-10 18:55 GMT+01:00 James Lay <[email protected]>:
> 
>         On 2015-02-10 10:51 AM, James Lay wrote:
>         
>                 On 2015-02-10 10:41 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>                 
>                 
>                         2015-02-10 17:36
>                 
>                 GMT+01:00 James Lay <[email protected] [5]>:
>                 
>                         
>                         
>                                 On 2015-02-10
>                 
>                 08:37 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>                 
>                                 
>                                 
>                                         2015-02-10 16:32 GMT+01:00
>                 
>                 James Lay <[email protected] [4]>:
>                 
>                                         
>                                         
>                                                 Help....just made
>                 
>                 the switch and seeing a ton of these types of errors:
>                 
>                                                 
>                                                 
>                 
>                 rsyslogd: Framing Error in received TCP message:
>                 delimiter is not SP but
>                 has ASCII value 46.
>                 
>                                         
>                                         this sounds like a problem
>                                         with the sender.
>                 
>                 Rsyslog is seing invalid protocol handling, more
>                 precisely a framing
>                 error. ASCII code 46 (the dot) is seen where either <
>                 or an integer
>                 number must be.
>                 
>                                         If that's an option, you could
>                                         capture a tcp
>                 
>                 session and post the capture file so that I can have a
>                 look with
>                 wireshark.
>                 
>                                         Rainer
>                                         
>                                         
>                                                 Not even sure where to
>                                                 start to look
>                 
>                 at this. Thank you.
>                 
>                                                 
>                                                 James
>                                                 
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>                                 Yes...these messages are from a proxy
>                                 device which is just
>                 
>                 connecting via tcp to port 514...I am fairly certain
>                 that these aren't
>                 protocol compliant with things like:
>                 
>                                 
>                                 192.168.1.1 - - TCP....
>                                 
>                 
>                 192.168.1.1 DOMAINname ....
>                 
>                                 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.2 ....
>                         
>                         
>                         yup,
>                 
>                 that's not syslog but just a dump ;)
>                 
>                         
>                         
>                                 A lot of these messages
>                 
>                 contain funky characters. Is there a way I can tell
>                 rsyslog to just log
>                 and ignore protocol? Thank you.
>                 
>                         
>                         To make things work really nice,
>                 
>                 you would need this:
>                 https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/238 [6]
>                 (feel free to vote for its implementation!).
>                 
>                         The work-around is to
>                 
>                 disable octet-counted framing. With the current
>                 versions, this means you
>                 must use imptcp (not imtcp, note the "p"), because
>                 imtcp has a bug so
>                 that it does not accept the config parameter. Then,
>                 you can use the
>                 rawmsg property in a custom template, which will get
>                 you the exact same
>                 message that was received.
>                 
>                         IF, however, there are embedded LF INSIDE
>                 
>                 the messages, you are lost. But this looks like CLF,
>                 so I wouldn't
>                 expect them.
>                 
>                         HTH
>                         Rainer
>                         
>                         James
>                         
>                         
>                                 
>                 
>                 
>                 Thanks Rainer,
>                 
>                 So
>                 dumping this to a file, opening in vim and doing a set
>                 list shows
>                 nothing embedded...just a LONG line. In between what
>                 would have been a
>                 linefeed I see #015#012. And can you point me in the
>                 right direction for
>                 making a custom template? I'm pretty new to
>                 rsyslog...thanks a bunch
>                 Rainer.
>                 
>                 James
>                 
>         
>         
>         And got no love with imptcp:
>         
>         10:53:13 syslog rsyslogd-2066: could not load module
>         '/usr/lib/rsyslog/imptcp.so',
>         dlopen: /usr/lib/rsyslog/imptcp.so: cannot open shared object
>         file: No such file or directory  [try
>         http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2066 ]
>         
>         This was installed using ppa at
>         http://www.rsyslog.com/ubuntu-repository.
>         
> 
> 
> You need to install rsyslog-imptcp.
> 
> 
> HTH
> Rainer 

Thanks Rainer.  Interestingly enough after adding an option in the proxy
server to add a timestamp, this is now working as it should.  Thanks
again.

James
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