Package: syslog-ng Version: 1.6.5-2.2 Severity: wishlist Hi.
Among others, Perl's Sys::Syslog sends message buffers containing non-printable characters (mainly NUL characters - \000) to the local syslog daemon. sysklogd stops writing messages at the first NUL character and is therefore mainly unaffected by this. syslog-ng however, saves the complete buffer to the logfile. This behaviour might be of use to some (especially with non-ASCII character sets), but for most of us, it isn't too nice because it makes grep'ing harder (grep complains about binary file). It would therefore be nice if syslog-ng could at least strip trailing NUL characters from incoming log messages. It might be even nicer if an option was introduced to remove or replace non-printable characters from log messages. Regards, Sven -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental'), (90, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12-incase Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages syslog-ng depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii util-linux 2.12p-4sarge1 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages syslog-ng recommends: ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
