ERROR: Closing data source tag in filename of datetime output

[casesolved-co-uk]

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Bug description

Got the following file in /var/log when I enabled logging to file with the datetime format:

snoopy.log-[ERROR: Closing data source tag ('}') not found.]

Bug reproduction steps

1. Ubuntu 20.04.06 LTS (AWS version)
2. Install using install-snoopy.sh as root (version 2.5.1)
3. reconfigure to output using: output = file:/var/log/snoopy.log-%{datetime:%Y-%m-%d}
4. disable and enable snoopy
5. View file in /var/log

Expected result

Normal filename

Actual result

Strange filename above

[bostjan]

Hey @casesolved-co-uk, thanks for reporting this. By the looks of it, it seems the format parser doesn't correctly recognise the } character, for whatever reason (maybe because it's the last character in a string, and the parser fails to deal with that location correctly), and thus the creation of datetime string fails, resulting in an error. Clearly there are some (quite literally) edge case tests missing here. I'll look into this soon-ish.

[bostjan]

The fix will be released in v2.5.2. Thanks for reporting this issue!