Mhhh... I have no idea why Solaris' logger writes to both locations. But I
also don't see how I should tell which one to drop...

As of the timestamps: are you sure you use the newest version of the branch
in question? I remember that I recently fixed something in that regard.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lu, Victor
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 6:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [rsyslog] Duplicated messages on Solaris
> 
> On Solaris,
> 
> 
> 1)      If I use both $Modload  ImkLog and $Modload imsolaris,
> 
>        A logger command will always generate message twice.
>        2011-09-26T11:08:46-04:00 i8-420-02 test: [ID 702911
> user.notice] This is a test
>         2011-09-26T11:08:46.962612-04:00 i8-420-02 kernel: Sep 26
> 11:08:46 test: [ID 702911 user.notice] This is a test
> 
>         su command will return only one message.
>         2011-09-26T12:08:21.643321-04:00 i8-420-02 kernel: Sep 26
> 12:08:21 su: [ID 366847 auth.info] 'su root' succeeded for vl10243 on
> /dev/pts/4
> 
> 
> 2)      If I use $Modload imklog only, the logger command will return
> only one message.
> 
>        2011-09-26T12:02:20.667780-04:00 i8-420-02 kernel: Sep 26
> 12:02:20 test: [ID 702911 user.notice] this is a test
> 
>         su command will return only one message.
> 
>          2011-09-26T12:02:47.700657-04:00 i8-420-02 kernel: Sep 26
> 12:02:47 su: [ID 366847 auth.info] 'su root' succeeded for vl10243 on
> /dev/pts/4
> 
> 
> 3)      If I use $Modload imsolaris only
> 
>         The logger command will return the following message.
> 
>        2011-09-26T12:06:01-04:00 i8-420-02 test: [ID 702911
> user.notice] this is a test
> 
>       su command will not return any message.
> 
> I only need one message to be generated in the system log (same on
> Linux), not duplicated.
> 
> It looks like I can use imklog module alone to capture both kernel and
> logger command message. But I am not sure if I still could miss other
> type of system events without using imsolaris module.
> 
> For the kernel message generated, I don't like duplicated time stamp
> 
> For example, the following event,
> 2011-09-26T12:02:20.667780-04:00 i8-420-02 kernel: Sep 26 12:02:20
> test: [ID 702911 user.notice] this is a test
> 
> The timestamp  after kernel: Sep 26 12:02:20  because I already have
> the event time 2011-09-26T12:02:20.667780-04:00.
> 
> Any suggestions? Anybody have a sample rsyslog.conf on Solaris to
> share?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Victor Lu
> 
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