Can't get syslog built-in plugin to post messages to syslog

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 01:42:00 AM Peter Butler wrote:
> I can't get syslog built-in plugin to post messages to syslog.
> 
> My syslog.conf plugin file is:
> 
> active = yes
> direction = out
> path = builtin_syslog
> type = builtin
> args = LOG_INFO LOG_LOCAL3
> format = string
> 
> Presumably the file is indeed being parsed by the user-space audit daemon,
> as after having changed 'active' to 'yes' (and restarted the system), I see
> the audit daemon has started up the child process audispd, as required.
> 
> The audit daemon is indeed logging the audit logs to
> /var/log/audit/audit.log, but is not also sending them to syslog as
> configured.

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/trunk/audisp/audispd-builtins.c#L256

Turns out that you can pass the priority, but not the facility. So, your 
events are wherever the LOG_USER facility is sending them. This probably 
should be documented better.
 
-Steve