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Bug #13476
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External syslog receives tons of "send to syslog" messages
Status:
Not a Bug
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Logging
Target version:
-
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Affected Architecture:
All
Description
When forwarding messages to an external syslog system, I get tons of messages in that system telling that a message has been send to the syslog server.
"<78>1 2022-09-09T09:49:00.054868+02:00 pfSense.lan /usr/sbin/cron 59745 - - (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/newsyslog)" That can not be the intention IMHO
Updated by Jim Pingle over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Not a Bug
When you have syslog send all messages it does just that, sends all messages, and that includes messages from when cron runs every job, which happens every minute for newsyslog.
There is no way to exclude just those messages from being sent when you tell syslog to send everything. Your log server should have a facility to filter those messages if you don't want them.
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