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.resyslogd process is using 200% cpu

First of all, a disclamer, I am not a sys admin, I was just asked to check why a VM of ours is using a lot of the cpu. It turns out that this process is running for ever on 200% $top PID   USER     PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM   …
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syslogd to Remote Server with Template

All over the web I find examples for either (1) rsyslog to a remote server or (2) rsyslog with templates, but never both. When I have this /etc/rsyslog.conf on my Mac it sends to the remote server fine: *.* @10.1.38.223 But when I change to this,…
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Why corrupted rc.sysinit file create syslogd error

During boot the system hangs, and the last message while it hangs is: Starting system logger: Can't open or create /var/run/syslogd.pid. Can't write pid. After a while I discovered that /etc/init/rc.sysinit was corrupted - the first line…
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Disabling syslogd messages

As I am working with the terminal, I see a lot of messages every some seconds saying that Message from syslogd@compute-0-0 at Jul 24 18:38:57 ... kernel:[ 723.595032] [Hardware Error]: MC4_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]:…
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How to supress specific message in syslogd 1.4.1

Is there any way to suppress specific message in syslogd? I have couple of Linux Oracle 5.10 servers with syslogd 1.4.1 As all my servers are production servers - I can't upgrade syslogd to rsyslogd (where filtering messages is possible). Any idea…
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Configuring 'audit' facility in syslog-ng on solaris server?

This is a follow-up to this question. mghocke was kind enough to help me out with that question, but this is really a separate question, therefor a new post. I really don't know a lot about syslog, and am trying to move away from syslogd to…
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OS X Server 10.4 postfix qmngr is suddenly using tons of resources

I have an Apple XServe G5, running 10.4 server, that I use primarily for my (small) companies website and internal email. Usually, the processor usage hovers around 5-10% total. As I have a rather small company and prefer to use my GMail account,…
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Syslog buffering

I have a large number of "client" machines (Mac Minis running OS X 10.6.3) that need to send data to a central server, also running OS X, so I am using remote syslogging to accomplish this. My question is, if the server (or the a client) goes…
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Remote logging with Syslogd, can I change the hostname?

I am running ddwrt v24-sp2 on three WRT54GL routers. These routers all send their syslog information to the same remote server using syslogd The problem is that in the logs the hostname will change between the LAN IP and 127.0.0.1. This makes it…
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Ubuntu 20.04: trying to get syslog-ng and rsyslog to co-exist with systemd

I am stuck with rsyslog running in a corporate straight jacket. The config is completely set. I need to run a service to relay logs from a variety of sources and I use syslog-ng for this. I have this running on an older ubuntu system using a…
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RSyslogd is sending multiples CEF messages in the same Syslog message

There is a Python script sending multiple events to a remote host with Rsyslogd: CEF:0|Test|SIEMintegration|1|1|Normal|0| fileId=767000670128771115 CEF:0|Test|SIEMintegration|1|1|Normal|0| fileId=766000430136104144 But when they reach to that…
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