In article <kcktti$sbg$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote:
> In <kcksg2$bkp$1...@panix2.panix.com> r...@panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:
>
> > What's weird is that two of the servers, and only those two, stick a
> > BOM (Byte Order Mark) in front of the message they log. It shows up
> > in syslog as:
>
> > 2013-01-09T00:00:00+00:00 web5.songza.com <U+FEFF>2013-01-0900:00:00,754
> > [18979]: [etc...]
>
> I worked on an application that would insert a BOM in syslog messages if
> the logged message contained unicode, but not if it was plain ascii.
>
> Not sure if this relates to your issue, but it's similar enough that it
> seemed worth mentioning.
That doesn't seem to be it. All messages from web{2,5} have BOMs, no
message from web{1,3,4,6,7,8,9,10} ever does.
I even tried looking at the output of socket.gethostname() on the
various machines to see if maybe the hostname had some unicode character
in it. No joy.
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