Nxlog cannot collect logs in certain directories - windows-services

Question

Background
Use nxlog to collect the logs of win server 2012 R2 server.
The configuration file is as follows
define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
define CERTDIR %ROOT%\cert
define CONFDIR %ROOT%\conf
define LOGDIR %ROOT%\data
define LOGFILE %LOGDIR%\nxlog.log
LogFile %LOGFILE%
Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
CacheDir %ROOT%\data
Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
<Extension _syslog>
Module xm_syslog
</Extension>
<Input in1>
Module im_file
ReadFromLast true
SavePos false
File "C:\\中文\log.log"
</Input>
<Output out>
Module om_udp
Host 192.168.40.3
Port 514
</Output>
<Route 1>
Path in1 => out
</Route>
Process
If we use background code, we will get error. Check the log of nxlog on the server and found the following error
2020-11-26 10:13:02 ERROR failed to open C:\中文\log.log; Invalid argument
2020-11-26 10:13:04 ERROR apr_stat failed on file C:\中文\log.log; Invalid argument
But if we just use English string directory. Everything will be ok.
Such as
define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
define CERTDIR %ROOT%\cert
define CONFDIR %ROOT%\conf
define LOGDIR %ROOT%\data
define LOGFILE %LOGDIR%\nxlog.log
LogFile %LOGFILE%
Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
CacheDir %ROOT%\data
Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
<Extension _syslog>
Module xm_syslog
</Extension>
<Input in1>
Module im_file
ReadFromLast true
SavePos false
File "C:\\log.log"
</Input>
<Output out>
Module om_udp
Host 192.168.40.3
Port 514
</Output>
<Route 1>
Path in1 => out
</Route>
Problem
How to make nxlog collect logs in not english string directory?
OT
NXLog User Guide Common Issues

Answer 1

Ensure that the conf file code is UTF-8