Bug 476543 – rsyslog report remote messages as it comes from localhost

Bug 476543 - rsyslog report remote messages as it comes from localhost

Summary:	rsyslog report remote messages as it comes from localhost

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	rsyslog (Show other bugs)
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Version:	10
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Tomas Heinrich
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Reported:	2008-12-15 10:01 EST by Marek Greško
Modified:	2016-09-20 00:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-12-22 12:07:03 EST
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Description Marek Greško 2008-12-15 10:01:36 EST

Description of problem:
When a remote host is configured to syslog to the central host, remote hosts are repoerted as localhost.

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How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run rsyslogd with remote logging enabled.
2. Configure another rsyslog to log remotely to central log server.
3. Watch logs. localhost is the source of messages.
  
Actual results:
localhost is the reported source of messages.

Expected results:
real hostname is reported as a source of syslog messages.

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Comment 1 Marek Greško 2008-12-17 10:44:46 EST

Sorry, it was a configuration problem on client. I had wrong line in /etc/hosts.

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