Package: rsyslog Version: 5.7.3-1 Severity: normal Before version 5.7.3-1 rsyslog used to clean up any extra whitespace present at eol, and it apparently no longer does. For example, smartd is one of the few applications which add an extra newline, before today's upgrade my logs looked like this:
| Feb 10 12:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 28 to 29 | Feb 10 19:00:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 30 to 31 | Feb 10 19:00:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 28 to 29 and now they look like this: | Feb 10 22:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 32 to 31 | | Feb 10 23:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 31 to 30 | | Feb 10 23:30:05 silenus smartd[2691]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 29 to 28 This is especially annoying because logcheck messages now include wads of unnecessary blank lines as a result... -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (850, 'testing'), (800, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-ore-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages rsyslog suggests: pn rsyslog-doc <none> (no description available) pn rsyslog-gnutls <none> (no description available) pn rsyslog-gssapi <none> (no description available) pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> (no description available) pn rsyslog-relp <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/rsyslog [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/rsyslog' -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
