Can you find/look at the line before in the log. It is probably the one containing the hindering data. Or otherwise it *might* be a clue where in the flow it happens.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > 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 > >> > > > > > -- Daan