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Rab_101866
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Aug 18, 2010

log local0. truncates message

Hi,   I am trying to log locally (/var/log/ltm)   [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri] and [HTTP::header "Referer"] to log local0. but some of the urls and referers are long and it seems the log is being tr...
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hooleylist
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Aug 18, 2010
Hi Rab,

 

 

I think there is a limit of 1024 bytes on syslog messages for LTM that cannot be changed.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/log

 

The syslog facility is limited to logging 1024 bytes per request. Longer strings will be truncated.

 

 

Aaron