Re: syslogd problem

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#157

From: Ken Raeburn
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:55

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In article <1992Sep8.144857.22346@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> eric@austin.ibm.com (Eric Carpenter) writes:

   If machineA has the following syslog.conf file:

   user.alert	/tmp/alert
   user.info	/tmp/info

... so an alert-level message gets logged to both files ...

   user.alert	@machineB
   user.info	@machineB

... and gets sent twice to machine B ...

   and machineB has the following syslog.conf file:

   user.info	/tmp/info
   user.alert	/tmp/alert

... so each copy gets logged to both files ...

   Then when machineA does a syslog of an alert priority, 2 alert entries
   are put in the /tmp/alert file of machineB.  Shouldn't there only be 1?
   There is also 2 entries in the /tmp/info file of machineB, but this I 
   can understand (one for the alert and one for the info).  When I comment 
   out the .info entries from machineA's syslog.conf file, the problem goes 
   away.

Right.  I think you'll get the "right" results by commenting out just
the "user.alert @machineB" entry alone on machineA.  Then all messages
of level "info" or above (including "alert") will be sent to machineB
once, there logged to the appropriate file(s) as determined by the
syslog.conf file there.

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