facility and priority not printing in syslog

[Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues]

Maybe, if you install syslog-ng, it will solve this problem for you.


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Marcos

2008/11/10 De Vries, Timothy <Timothy.DeVries at bmo.com>

> Hi,
>
> We are running RHEL 3.  From what I can see in the man pages RHEL should be
> able to print the facility.priority in the syslog message, however all of
> the messages in the log don't contain any information on the facility or
> (especially) the priority.  For example, in other versions of unix we run,
> the logging prints the priority as:
>
> Nov  8 06:38:29 my.host.com locks_arcstn[24097]: [ID 912228 daemon.error]
> Msg #26002, Level: 16, State: 1.
>
> Where
>
> facility = daemon
> priority = error = syslog priority 3
>
> Therefore it is very straightforward to grep all messages of a certain
> priority and below.
>
> In contrast our RHEL prints a sample like this:
>
> Nov  8 07:33:30 my.host.name.com xinetd[2326]: START: uptmagnt pid=10502
> from=1.1.1.1
>
> Devoid of any priority or facility that I can ascertain.  I have looked at
> the man pages but did not see any option or switch for syslogd, syslog.conf
> or /etc/sysconfig/syslog.    Does anyone have any clue how this might be
> accomplished?  The few times I called RedHat I couldn't get an answer for
> this one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim De Vries
>
>
>
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Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues
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