Put local0.none in the /var/log/messages entry to stop the router entries from showing up there. So after you changes it would look like this:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local0.none               /var/log/messages


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
Default redhat syslogd

/etc/sysconfig/syslog
SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r"
KLOGD_OPTIONS="-x"
SYSLOG_UMASK=077

/etc/syslog.conf
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*                                                 /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog


# Log cron stuff
cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg                                                 *

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log

# Chandler.azinterlock.com
local0.*
/var/log/azinterlock.chandler.juniper.log

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Jason Holtzapple <ml@bitflip.net> wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 03:25 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>> I hope no one makes me hand in my linux geek card on this one but...
>> I am setting up a remote syslog server to collect information from
>> various routers across my network. I can prepped local0-7 to the
>> syslog information and thus direct it to an appropriate log. However I
>> have set up only one and I am having trouble. While it does go to
>> /var/log/my.router.log all the information is also going to
>> /var/log/messages
>>
>> How do I stop the duplicate messages? This server is a "comprehensive"
>> <haha> monitoring server so I have a number of applications writing to
>> var/log/messages and I don't want to have to hunt through a tun of
>> router traffic if I have problems.
>
> Please post your syslog.conf and flavor of syslog (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc).
>
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