"Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> writes: > I need to re-read this more careful, but for now let me say that rsyslog does > not touch /etc/hosts at all. It exlusively relies on what is returned by the > OS. But the "source" property is not locally generated, it contains whatever > the sender placed into the relevant field.
Good info ... thanks. So my host is sending the miss-typed host name to rsyslog by having it in the log line DATE hostname => blah So I guess the question is how does my host derive the hostname it sticks into log messages. So thanks... and I already know the localhost will scan the /etc/hosts file when resolving the localhost name... so there is the culprit. Of course the culprit is really me, who miss-typed the host name. Thanks. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
