Bug 476543 - rsyslog report remote messages as it comes from localhost
Summary: rsyslog report remote messages as it comes from localhost
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rsyslog
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Heinrich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-15 15:01 UTC by Marek Greško
Modified: 2016-09-20 04:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-12-22 17:07:03 UTC
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Description Marek Greško 2008-12-15 15:01:36 UTC
Description of problem:
When a remote host is configured to syslog to the central host, remote hosts are repoerted as localhost.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Marek Greško 2008-12-17 15:44:46 UTC
Sorry, it was a configuration problem on client. I had wrong line in /etc/hosts.


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