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Author: Bryan O'Neal
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Subject: Re: Syslog question
worked like a charm - Thanks!

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Shawn Badger <> wrote:
> 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
> <> 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 <> 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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