agent reports and syslog

[NWa...@symcor.com]

Do agent reports always go to syslog? I disabled my agent and executor
*facility control settings yet reports are still going to syslog.

Sincerely,
--
Neil Watson
416-673-3465

[Fraser Campbell]

On Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:04:29 PM UTC-5, NWa...@symcor.com wrote:

Do agent reports always go to syslog? I disabled my agent and executor
*facility control settings yet reports are still going to syslog. 

I'm interested in this as well.  Can we stop the messages to syslog? I prefer to gather my reports in other ways ...

http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-Reference#syslog-in-agent is supposed to default to false and is described as "true/false switches on output to syslog at the inform level".  I get all output duplicated to syslog regardless of false, no or off value of syslog.

Am I doing something wrong?  Here's a self contained policy, I'd like the output on stdout (captured to /var/cfengine/outputs) but don't want it to also go to syslog:

body agent control {
  syslog => "false";
}


body common control {
  bundlesequence => { "test" };
}


bundle agent test {
  reports:
    linux::
        "Hi I'm a linux server";
}

Thanks,
Fraser

[Neil Watson]

A blast from the past :) There are some open bugs about syslog and
reports:

https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/view.php?id=998
https://cfengine.com/dev/issues/1646

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Neil Watson
Linux/UNIX Consultant
http://watson-wilson.ca