Re: Two log lines for SRCH parameters?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:22 PM +0100 Michael Ströder 
 wrote:




Oh, I see [1].

Even in 2009 only a SHOULD for 2048 octets was defined while the MUST
minimum was _lowered_ to 480 [2].


Seems to me to be continued support for why we should drop syslog support 
entirely and move to a more sensible logging framework.


--Quanah


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Re: Two log lines for SRCH parameters?

[Michael Ströder]

On 2/11/20 1:48 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> I'm wondering why there are two log lines for listing the search
>> parameters for a single search operation:
>>
>> SRCH base="dc=ae-dir,dc=example,dc=org" scope=2 deref=0
>> filter="(objectClass=aePerson)"
>>
>> SRCH attr=cn givenName sn mail aeStatus
>>
>> Is there any rationale for that?
> 
> Because any of DN, filter, or attrs could be too long for a single syslog 
> message.
> On many systems the limit was 1024 characters; using a single log message 
> resulted
> in too many truncated messages.

Oh, I see [1].

Even in 2009 only a SHOULD for 2048 octets was defined while the MUST
minimum was _lowered_ to 480 [2].

Ciao, Michael.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.1

Re: Two log lines for SRCH parameters?

[Howard Chu]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> HI!
> 
> I'm wondering why there are two log lines for listing the search
> parameters for a single search operation:
> 
> SRCH base="dc=ae-dir,dc=example,dc=org" scope=2 deref=0
> filter="(objectClass=aePerson)"
> 
> SRCH attr=cn givenName sn mail aeStatus
> 
> Is there any rationale for that?

Because any of DN, filter, or attrs could be too long for a single syslog 
message.
On many systems the limit was 1024 characters; using a single log message 
resulted
in too many truncated messages.

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  Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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