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Long lines will be splitted when journald logs

Open xeor opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

In https://github.com/containers/conmon/blob/2b087348289664b75c874ce44796f762d636c060/src/ctr_logging.c#L320-L322, CONTAINER_PARTIAL_MESSAGE is set static to true. I find no way to turn this off.

This can be problematic example when using ansible tower/awx, which uses conmon/podman to start jobs inside containers running its job since those jobs often contains a bunch of json from ansible. You will end up with a splitted message in journald, which is not even in order..

If you send journald messages to another system as well, you will have no way of putting it together, and it will often break parsing and cause all sorts of problems since there are unbalanced quotes per line.

There should be a way to log without setting CONTAINER_PARTIAL_MESSAGE to true

xeor avatar May 12 '22 12:05 xeor

thanks for opening the issue @xeor , do you have any interest in opening a PR?

haircommander avatar May 23 '22 15:05 haircommander

sorry for the delay..

I honestly don't think I should try to make a PR for this. I have not been doing a lot (any c programming). I am working around this by using the logging functionality inside awx/tower instead of journald. So this is still a problem.

xeor avatar Jun 04 '22 20:06 xeor