[LOGCXX-324] exception on logging long message to syslog

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Appender
• Environment: Linux
• Assignee: Robert Middleton
• Reporter: Ben Hockley
• Created: 19/Jan/09 13:52
• Updated: 31/Dec/22 15:47
• Resolved: 16/Feb/21 02:10

Description

An exception is raised by log4cxx when a very large message is logged using the SyslogAppender/SyslogWriter (other appenders/writers appear to "work" perfectly with large messages).

The exception occurs if the message in question is too large to fit inside a UDP packet (the syslog protocol uses UDP).

It would be better to split big messages up before sending them over the syslog protocol as per this similar log4j issue/fix - https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42087 - rather than forcing log4cxx clients to restructure their program logic in order to avoid (or recover from) from this kind of rare logging exception.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #46