On 9/2/19 10:18 PM, Wei ZHOU wrote:
> Hi Wido,
>
> I had similar issue (not agent.log). It is probably caused by one or few>
> lines with special characters.
And I'm trying to figure out what causes it :-)
> "grep -a" should work.
I know, but other tools which analyze the logfile might also have
trouble reading the file due to binary characters.
Wido
>
> -Wei
>
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 19:35, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've seen this on multiple occasions with Ubuntu 18.04 (and maybe
>> 16.04?) hypervisors where according to 'grep' the agent.log is a binary
>> file:
>>
>> root@n06:~# grep security_group /var/log/cloudstack/agent/agent.log
>> Binary file /var/log/cloudstack/agent/agent.log matches
>> root@n06:~#
>>
>> If I open the file with 'less' I indeed see binary data.
>>
>> Tailing the file works just fine.
>>
>> Does anybody know where this is coming from? What in the CloudStack
>> agent causes it to write binary data to the logfile?
>>
>> Wido
>>
>
