Syslog formatting issue

UNIX Solaris
1

Hi,

I am using log4j syslog appender to redirect the application logs to the solaris syslog.
However, I am facing issue in formatting. It is not able to interpret new line characters and is printing \n as it is.

Ex: Following is getting written into the syslog file.

 
"[ExceptionList]\n [RecoverableException ('MQROOT')]\n File = '/build
/S700_P/src/DataFlowEngine/PluginInterface/ImbJniNode.cpp' (String)\n Line = '1258' (Integer)\n Function = 'ImbJni
Node"

I know in Linux (Ubuntu) we have option to escape the control characters by specifying below option in syslog config file.

"$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive off"

Please let me know if we have similar option in Solaris? how to resolve this please help

2

syslog does not have the extensions of rsyslogd: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsconf1_escapecontrolcharactersonreceive.html

3

Is there any other setting/configuration that we can do in syslog to interpret escape characters and print newline characters (\n) properly?

4

Postprocessing is the usual thing, or running rsyslogd.

5

Not in Solaris 10 or earlier syslog.