added new config directive $RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg

so that the "last message repeated n times" messages, if generated, may
have an alternate format that contains the message that is being repeated.
Note that this is on an action-by-action basis.

4 files changed, 25 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5056f68d..acd3df4d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Version 4.1.5  [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-02-??
+- added new config directive $RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg so that the
+  "last message repeated n times" messages, if generated, may
+  have an alternate format that contains the message that is being repeated
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version 4.1.3  [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2008-12-17
 - added $InputTCPServerAddtlFrameDelimiter config directive, which
   enables to specify an additional, non-standard message delimiter
diff --git a/action.c b/action.c
index c95c0def..a41f976c 100644
--- a/action.c
+++ b/action.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static int iActExecEveryNthOccur = 0; /* execute action every n-th occurence (0,
 static time_t iActExecEveryNthOccurTO = 0; /* timeout for n-occurence setting (in seconds, 0=never) */
 static int glbliActionResumeInterval = 30;
 int glbliActionResumeRetryCount = 0;		/* how often should suspended actions be retried? */
+static int bActionRepMsgHasMsg = 0;		/* last messsage repeated... has msg fragment in it */
 
 /* main message queue and its configuration parameters */
 static queueType_t ActionQueType = QUEUETYPE_DIRECT;		/* type of the main message queue above */
@@ -621,15 +622,7 @@ actionWriteToAction(action_t *pAction)
 	 */
 	if(pAction->f_prevcount > 1) {
 		msg_t *pMsg;
-#if 0 /* old */
-		uchar szRepMsg[64];
-		snprintf((char*)szRepMsg, sizeof(szRepMsg), "last message repeated %d times",
-		    pAction->f_prevcount);
-#else
 		uchar szRepMsg[1024];
-		snprintf((char*)szRepMsg, sizeof(szRepMsg), "message repeated %d times: [%.800s]",
-		    pAction->f_prevcount, getMSG(pAction->f_pMsg));
-#endif
 
 		if((pMsg = MsgDup(pAction->f_pMsg)) == NULL) {
 			/* it failed - nothing we can do against it... */
@@ -637,6 +630,14 @@ actionWriteToAction(action_t *pAction)
 			ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_ERR);
 		}
 
+		if(pAction->bRepMsgHasMsg == 0) { /* old format repeat message? */
+			snprintf((char*)szRepMsg, sizeof(szRepMsg), "last message repeated %d times",
+			    pAction->f_prevcount);
+		} else {
+			snprintf((char*)szRepMsg, sizeof(szRepMsg), "message repeated %d times: [%.800s]",
+			    pAction->f_prevcount, getMSG(pAction->f_pMsg));
+		}
+
 		/* We now need to update the other message properties.
 		 * ... RAWMSG is a problem ... Please note that digital
 		 * signatures inside the message are also invalidated.
@@ -823,6 +824,7 @@ actionAddCfSysLineHdrl(void)
 	CHKiRet(regCfSysLineHdlr((uchar *)"actionqueuedequeuetimeend", 0, eCmdHdlrInt, NULL, &iActionQueueDeqtWinToHr, NULL));
 	CHKiRet(regCfSysLineHdlr((uchar *)"actionexeconlyeverynthtime", 0, eCmdHdlrInt, NULL, &iActExecEveryNthOccur, NULL));
 	CHKiRet(regCfSysLineHdlr((uchar *)"actionexeconlyeverynthtimetimeout", 0, eCmdHdlrInt, NULL, &iActExecEveryNthOccurTO, NULL));
+	CHKiRet(regCfSysLineHdlr((uchar *)"repeatedmsgcontainsoriginalmsg", 0, eCmdHdlrBinary, NULL, &bActionRepMsgHasMsg, NULL));
 	
 finalize_it:
 	RETiRet;
@@ -856,6 +858,7 @@ addAction(action_t **ppAction, modInfo_t *pMod, void *pModData, omodStringReques
 	pAction->iSecsExecOnceInterval = iActExecOnceInterval;
 	pAction->iExecEveryNthOccur = iActExecEveryNthOccur;
 	pAction->iExecEveryNthOccurTO = iActExecEveryNthOccurTO;
+	pAction->bRepMsgHasMsg = bActionRepMsgHasMsg;
 	iActExecEveryNthOccur = 0; /* auto-reset */
 	iActExecEveryNthOccurTO = 0; /* auto-reset */
 
diff --git a/action.h b/action.h
index 8d9d5102..e35e634c 100644
--- a/action.h
+++ b/action.h
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ struct action_s {
 	time_t  tLastOccur;	/* time last occurence was seen (for timing them out) */
 	struct modInfo_s *pMod;/* pointer to output module handling this selector */
 	void	*pModData;	/* pointer to module data - content is module-specific */
-	int	f_ReduceRepeated;/* reduce repeated lines 0 - no, 1 - yes */
+	short	bRepMsgHasMsg;	/* "message repeated..." has msg fragment in it (0-no, 1-yes) */
+	short	f_ReduceRepeated;/* reduce repeated lines 0 - no, 1 - yes */
 	int	f_prevcount;	/* repetition cnt of prevline */
 	int	f_repeatcount;	/* number of "repeated" msgs */
 	int	iNumTpls;	/* number of array entries for template element below */
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
index 6e03e571..b0c1e400 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ supported in order to be compliant to the upcoming new syslog RFC series.
 </li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_moddir.html">$ModDir</a></li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_modload.html">$ModLoad</a></li>
+<li><b>$RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - "last message repeated n times" messages, if generated,
+have a different format that contains the message that is being repeated.
+Note that only the first "n" characters are included, with n to be at least 80 characters, most
+probably more (this may change from version to version, thus no specific limit is given). The bottom
+line is that n is large enough to get a good idea which message was repeated but it is not necessarily
+large enough for the whole message. (Introduced with 4.1.5). Once set, it affects all following actions.</li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_repeatedmsgreduction.html">$RepeatedMsgReduction</a></li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_resetconfigvariables.html">$ResetConfigVariables</a></li>
 <li><b>$OptimizeForUniprocessor</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - turns on optimizatons which lead to better
@@ -226,7 +232,7 @@ point of view, "1,,0.0.,.,0" also has the value 1000. </p>
 [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p>
 <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the
 <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br>
-Copyright &copy; 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
+Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
 <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL
 version 2 or higher.</font></p>
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