This also causes problems with syslog-ng. See message #64 by Balazs Scheidler
in bug 356700 for a good explanation of the situation.
Here's possibly a better patch, which works with spamassassin and syslog-ng on
my system. I'm using perl 5.10.0
--- Syslog.pm.orig 2009-04-16 10:24:55.000000000 -0400
+++ Syslog.pm 2009-04-16 10:25:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -405,7 +405,9 @@
sub _syslog_send_console {
my ($buf) = @_;
- chop($buf); # delete the NUL from the end
+ # do not delete the NUL from the end, as it's the only thing to terminate
+ # messages when using unix-stream transport
+ # chop($buf);
# The console print is a method which could block
# so we do it in a child process and always return success
# to the caller.
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Gene Cash
Phone: 407-458-1596 Oracle Support Services (Orlando, FL USA)
A: Because it disturbs the logical flow of a message.
Q: Why is top posting a sloppy form of writing?
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