--On Monday, January 13, 2003 17:12:26 +0000 Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, does that mean that exim-3.xx's behaviour (splitting long log
>> messages over multiple lines in the syslog logging case) has been
>> "corrected" in exim-4.xx?
>
> My understanding, when I implemented syslog, was that there was a limit
> to the length of line that syslog could handle. That is why the
> splitting takes place. (You don't think I made it up for fun do you? :-)
> It has not changed in Exim 4, as far as I can recall.
There is a limit, as well as certain (UnixWare for one) syslogs that do,
err, interesting
things with certain characters (\n for starters) in the syslog processing.
LER
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