[plug] Pipe into logger duplicates in /var/log/messages on CentOS

Alex alex at spottedmouse.com
Tue Mar 4 10:44:26 UTC 2014


Thanks Andrew. I found the cause. For some reason I added a user facility

user.* /var/log/messages

Removing this facility stopped the duplications.

Thanks for your help
Alex
On 04/03/14 17:27, Andrew Cooks wrote:
> On 4 March 2014 16:35, Alexander <alex at j2anywhere.com> wrote:
>> Anyhow, even using the pipe symbol still duplicates the messages going
>> into /var/log/messages. Any pointers to investigate and resolve this ?
>>
> Have you tried different priorities and facilities? Maybe your syslog
> configuration is doing something unexpected with the 'user' facility
> that logger uses by default?
>
> a.



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