Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#1104 new enhancement

. (dot) is not allow for syslog tag

Reported by: thausler786@… Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.11.x
Keywords: log syslog Cc:
uname -a: Linux ****** 4.2.0-42-generic #49~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 29 20:22:11 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nginx -V: nginx version: nginx/1.11.1
built by gcc 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3)
configure arguments: --prefix=/var/vcap/packages/nginx --with-pcre=../pcre-8.39 --add-module=../headers-more-nginx-module-0.30 --add-module=../nginx-upload-module-2.2 --with-http_stub_status_module

Description

When parsing our ngnix configuration file, nginx complains:

[emerg] syslog "tag" only allows alphanumeric characters and underscore

The only non-alphanumeric character in the tag is '.'. We have '.' in every other syslog streams, and our filters rely on this character.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Maxim Dounin, 8 years ago

See ticket #667 for some related comments.

comment:2 by Maxim Dounin, 8 years ago

Type: defectenhancement
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