Re: Two log lines for SRCH parameters?

Michael Ströder <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:22:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/11/20 1:48 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> I'm wondering why there are two log lines for listing the search
>> parameters for a single search operation:
>>
>> SRCH base="dc=ae-dir,dc=example,dc=org" scope=2 deref=0
>> filter="(objectClass=aePerson)"
>>
>> SRCH attr=cn givenName sn mail aeStatus
>>
>> Is there any rationale for that?
> 
> Because any of DN, filter, or attrs could be too long for a single syslog message.
> On many systems the limit was 1024 characters; using a single log message resulted
> in too many truncated messages.

Oh, I see [1].

Even in 2009 only a SHOULD for 2048 octets was defined while the MUST
minimum was _lowered_ to 480 [2].

Ciao, Michael.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.1