[rsyslog] more 5.1.3 errors (fwd)

[Rainer Gerhards]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of david at lang.hm
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:16 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] more 5.1.3 errors (fwd)
> 
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> 
> > I am now almost 100% sure it is a regression from this change:
> >
> >
> http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=86e37f70fe0e9de0e0
> 036299
> > 0c73536843c8fef3
> >
> > As it looks, I forgot to add the dash as a permitted character in
> hostnames,
> > thus it triggers the logic that says "invalid hostname, so it must be
> a tag".
> >
> > Will see what I need to fix...
> 
> that would definantly cause me problems (_lots_ of my hostnames have a
> dash in them)

Yes, that was the cause of this problem. I have now fixed it in all affected
versions (inside the git branches, of course). The trivial patch is here:

http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commitdiff;h=daa76ad94428599336ddafdd
6854dc0b71356180

> it doesn't explain the second issue where logs that are relayed through
> one machine end up showing that they were relayed through a different
> one.

One at a time ;) I'll try to find out more about this, but I fear here I
really need a debug log. I suspect this is something that is triggered by the
environment...

Rainer