Bug 75279

Summary: Strange characters in syslog output
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: petr
Component: sysklogdAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 8.0CC: mitr, rvokal
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Description petr 2002-10-06 19:02:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
In /var/log/messages, there are lines with strange charactersm like:

Oct  6 17:02:42 petr6 unicode_start: ^[%G
Oct  6 17:03:02 petr6 iptables: ^[[60G
Oct  6 17:03:08 petr6 keytable: ^[%G
Oct  6 17:03:09 petr6 sshd: ^[[60G

I don't know if it is bug related to sysklogd, but it is very confusing - i
suppose there should be some useful output instead of these escape sequences.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-18 21:43:22 UTC 
Fixed in initscripts-7.08-1.