Question about syslogd and TAB characters?
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 21 13:45:31 UTC 2007
On Monday 18 June 2007 19:10, Dennis Smith wrote:
> 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?
Fixed in svn, will be in 1.7.0
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