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- From: raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn)
- Subject: Re: syslogd problem
- In-Reply-To: eric@austin.ibm.com's message of 8 Sep 92 14:48:57 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep8.144857.22346@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:55:14 GMT
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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:
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- 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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