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no-piggyback-errors (#145)
Added "no-piggyback-errors" to parser flags. Signed-off-by: Zsolt Gyulai (zgyulai) <zsolt.gyulai@quest.com>
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_includes/doc/admin-guide/options/source-flags.md

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## flags()
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|Type:| assume-utf8, empty-lines, expect-hostname, kernel, no-hostname, no-multi-line, no-parse, sanitize-utf8, store-legacy-msghdr, store-raw-message, syslog-protocol, threaded, validate-utf8|
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|Accepted values:| `assume-utf8`, `empty-lines`, `expect-hostname`, `kernel`, `no-hostname`, `no-multi-line`, `no-parse`, `sanitize-utf8`, `store-legacy-msghdr`, `store-raw-message`, `syslog-protocol`, `threaded`, `validate-utf8`, `no-piggyback-errors`, `piggyback-errors`|
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|Default: | empty set|
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*Description:* Specifies the log parsing options of the source.
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If the BOM[^1] character is missing, but the message is otherwise UTF-8
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compliant, {{ site.product.short_name }} automatically adds the BOM character to the
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- *no-piggyback-errors*: On failure, the original message will be left as it was before parsing, the value of `$MSGFORMAT` will be set to `syslog:error`, and a tag (see Tagging messages) will be placed on the message corresponding to the parser's failure.
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- *piggyback-errors*: On failure, the old behaviour is used (clearing the entire message then syslog-ng will generate a new message in place of the old one describing the parser's error).
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[^1]: The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the byte-order of the message text.

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