Public bug reported:

Ubuntu Release :: `lsb_release -rd`:

> Description:  Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
> Release:      22.04

Package version :: `apt-cache policy tomcat9`:

> tomcat9:
>   Installed: 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1
>   Candidate: 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1
>   Version table:
>  *** 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1 500
>         500 http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu 
> jammy-updates/universe amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      9.0.58-1 500
>         500 http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe 
> amd64 Packages

What I expected to happen:

The default `/etc/rsyslog.d/tomcat9.conf` (replicated below) _intends_
to send `tomcat9` logging to `/var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out` (according
to the `action(...)` directive) and - nowhere else - (according to the
`stop` directive):

```
# Send Tomcat messages to catalina.out when using systemd
$template 
TomcatFormat,"[%timegenerated:::date-year%-%timegenerated:::date-month%-%timegenerated:::date-day%
 
%timegenerated:::date-hour%:%timegenerated:::date-minute%:%timegenerated:::date-second%]
 [%syslogseverity-text%]%msg%\n"

:programname, startswith, "tomcat9" {
  action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out" 
Template="TomcatFormat" fileCreateMode="0640")
  stop
}
```

What happened instead:

However, because this file's name (`tomcat9.conf`) causes it to be
processed _after_ `/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf` tomcat9's logs are
still being sent to `/var/log/syslog`.

Why? Because the latter file has this directive:

```
+*.*;auth,authpriv.none         -/var/log/syslog
```

Solution:

If `tomcat9.conf` was renamed - say - to `30-tomcat9.conf` for instance,
it would get processed _before_ `50-default.conf` and _then_ the `stop`
directive would have the intended effect.

** Affects: tomcat9 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: syslog

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  logging to `/var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out` is duplicated to
  `/var/log/syslog`

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