[PLUG] Whitespace in Ubuntu 22.04 rsyslog.conf

[Galen Seitz]

On 9/13/22 10:48, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 13:34 Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just an FYI:
>>
>> At work, we use a puppet template to generate /etc/rsyslog.conf on all
>> our *nix machines. That template was failing on the first Ubuntu 22.04
>> host we tried to integrate with our puppet configs.
>>
>> In short, certain directives that encountered two spaces between
>> directive and setting would fail, e.g.,
>>
>> $FileOwner  syslog
>> $FileGroup  adm
>>
>> Replacing the two spaces with a single space fixed the problem.
>>
>> I scoured the changelogs but couldn't find evidence that this is an
>> intentional change.
>> .
> 
> 
> Could this be UTF issue in rsyslog config parser/regexp?
> 
> I have been encountering strange invisible simple parsing issues recently.
> If this is related, I usually resolve them by replacing [ \t] or \s or \S
> with [[:space:]] patterns and it often helps.
> 
> I wish to know a way of color coding ascii and unicode in text/logs to make
> it visible what is one byte versus multi-byte characters. It will likely
> get settled over time.


This will never be settled.

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galen
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