#4970 filtering syslog results in "Binary file (standard input) matches"

[Richard Farthing]

New install on OpenSuse 42.2
When filtering syslog messages (in the syslog-ng module), if the filter produces any output, rather than the actual output, I get "Binary file (standard input) matches"
Searching the web suggests this is something to do with grep (it's using V2.16)
This distro uses perl 5.18.2, all required modules installed.
Manually searching with grep on the command line works fine as it does on other distros I use.
HOWEVER If I set the ordinary syslog module to point to the log files (probably not the right thing to do, but...) it searches correctly.

[Richard Farthing]

Further info.
Seems to be related to logs that have compressed logs files.
Suse is now using xz to rotate, whereas most use .gz. Seems webmin doesn't handle xz

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks for reporting this - you're correct that Webmin doesn't currently support xz files. I will add this in the next release.