On 07/12/2010 03:25 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I hope no one makes me hand in my linux geek card on this one but...
> I am setting up a remote syslog server to collect information from
> various routers across my network. I can prepped local0-7 to the
> syslog information and thus direct it to an appropriate log. However I
> have set up only one and I am having trouble. While it does go to
> /var/log/my.router.log all the information is also going to
> /var/log/messages
> 
> How do I stop the duplicate messages? This server is a "comprehensive"
> <haha> monitoring server so I have a number of applications writing to
> var/log/messages and I don't want to have to hunt through a tun of
> router traffic if I have problems.

Please post your syslog.conf and flavor of syslog (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc).