I guess he meant "rsyslog only have parsers for standard syslog message
formats" :-)


Philippe Muller


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Flavio Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I used a text file with fields separed for tabs and sent the lines to
> rsyslog via UDP.
>
> What did you mean for "it is not a valid syslog format"?
>
> //Flavio
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:38:14 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Parsing msg
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Flavio Oliveira
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:44 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Parsing msg
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The position based parser worked. However only if I use a imfile module
> > > .. if I use a imudp ... something odd happens with the msg when I try
> > > to send ...
> > > See trace below ... we can see the time "13:56:13" in the received msg
> > > and everything goes okay with it until send the message ...
> > >
> > > 8173.946100404:7f7ca971e700: imudp: epoll_wait() returned with 1 fds
> > > 8173.946115431:7f7ca971e700: recv(3,193),acl:1,msg:<190>2012-10-31
> > > 13:56:13 ...
> >
> > In any case, this is no valid syslog format, so you need to write a
> parser for that specific format.
> >
> > Rainer
> > > ...
> > > 8173.946129291:7f7ca971e700: main Q: entry added, size now log 1, phys
> > > 1 entries
> > > 8173.946136184:7f7ca971e700: main Q: EnqueueMsg advised worker start
> > > 8173.946144005:7f7ca871c700: wti 0x1898b30: worker awoke from idle
> > > processing
> > > 8173.946149585:7f7ca871c700: we deleted 0 objects and enqueued 0
> > > objects
> > > 8173.946152426:7f7ca871c700: delete batch from store, new sizes: log 1,
> > > phys 1
> > > 8173.946157217:7f7ca871c700: msg parser: flags 70, from
> > > '~NOTRESOLVED~', msg '<190>2012-10-31   13:56:13
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 8173.946313962:7f7ca871c700: relp session read 16 octets, buf '30 rsp 6
> > > 200 OK'
> > > 8173.946318863:7f7ca871c700: relp engine is dispatching frame with
> > > command 'rsp'
> > > 8173.946322371:7f7ca871c700: in rsp command handler, txnr 30, code 200,
> > > text 'OK'
> > > 8173.946325437:7f7ca871c700: DEL sess 0x7f7c98000b60 unacked 0,
> > > sessState 4
> > > 8173.946328020:7f7ca871c700: in destructor: sendbuf 0x7f7c98000f40
> > > 8173.946330805:7f7ca871c700: relpSessWaitState returns 0
> > > 8173.946333164:7f7ca871c700: send command relp sess state 4
> > > 8173.946335257:7f7ca871c700: sendcommand ready to send, relp sess state
> > > 4
> > > 8173.946339361:7f7ca871c700: frame to send: '31 syslog 236 <190>2012-
> > > 10-31T13:56:13.946118+01:00 nvezes-ds1 2012-10-31   13: 56:13 ...
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > the msg format is broken .. see the the time now (13: 56:13) ...
> > >
> > > I noticed that it happens when I use the imudp module ... it doesn't
> > > happen with the imfile module.
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea what caused this behaviour?
> > >
> > > Very basic conf file used to test:
> > >
> > > $ModLoad omrelp.so
> > > $ModLoad imudp.so
> > > $ModLoad imuxsock.so
> > >
> > > *.* :omrelp:xx.xx.xx.xx:514
> > >
> > > $UDPServerRun 514
> > >
> > > $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive off
> > >
> > > //Flavio
> > >
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:39:46 +0000
> > > > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Parsing msg
> > > >
> > > > Oops,hit return too quickly...
> > > > > >If I need more than one
> > > > > > field (Positions 3, 5 and 6), I just need to do something like
> > > > > > %msg:F:3:5:6%?
> > > > %msg:F:3%%msg:F:5%%msg:F:6%
> > > >
> > > > Rainer
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