Re: bug in line handling?

In fact, I mis-read this and there are two missing new lines in this.  
There should also be a newline before "nasaaa2*:" Which is the same  
host as the one I just not-very-effectively hid as "host1" :(

Arthur

On 9 Nov 2009, at 15:14, Arthur Clune wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've now using conserver with over 200 consoles all logging to one  
> conserver server. It all works really well except that sometimes  
> combined.log gets a little confused. This causes us some issues as  
> we use combined to log to do alerts, paging etc.
>
> The usual trigger is a box doing a kernel panic spewing stuff to the  
> console. We then see cases wheere there's a missing newline in  
> combined.log. Here's an example:
>
> host1*: setkey setup shade splashimage  
> ESC 
> [25lESC 
> [14;01HeadESC 
> [14;05HrebootESC 
> [14;12HrootESC 
> [14;17HrootnoverifyESC 
> [14;30HsavedefaultESC 
> [14;42HserialESC 
> [14;49HsetkeyESC 
> [14;56HsetupESC 
> [14;62HshadeESC 
> [14;68HsplashimageESC[25hESC[14;80HESC[14;01HESC[15;01Hterminal  
> terminfo testload testvbe unhide uppermem vnasaaa2*: beprobe  
> viewportESC 
> [25lESC 
> [15;01HterminalESC 
> [15;10HterminfoESC 
> [15;19HtestloadESC 
> [15;28HtestvbeESC 
> [15;36HunhideESC 
> [15;43HuppermemESC 
> [15;52HvbeprobeESC[15;61HviewportESC[25hESC[15;69HESC[15;01HESC[16;01H
> ESC 
> [16;01HESC 
> [17;01HESC 
> [17;01Hgrub 
> >                                                               
> host2: Nov  6 09:13:08 szs3.york.ac.uk last message repeated 1 time^M
>
> As you can see there should be a newline before "host2: ".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Arthur
>
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