Question about syslogd and TAB characters?
Dennis Smith
dennis.smith at vecimanetworks.com
Mon Jun 18 17:10:42 UTC 2007
Hello,
I am using busybox ver. 1.00
I send a log message via syslog that includes \t (horizontal tab) in the
message. When I look a the log file (\var\log\messages), instead of the expected
tab, I see "^I" in the logged message. Granted, that is the control sequence for tabs,
but on another system that does not use busy box, I see the expected tab in the file,
which is preferrable when trying to line up columns of data in your logging files.
Questions
1. Is this a bug with the syslogd included with busybox?
2. Is there a fix for this in a later release of busybox?, which release is it in?
3. If there is no fix available at this time, can someone investigate this, and provide a fix?
4. If someone will look into it, approximately how long will it be before they do?
Thanks in advance,
Dennis Smith
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