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Bug 661149

Summary: Rklogd is gone and kernel log messages are not being logged by rsyslog
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: rsyslogAssignee: Tomas Heinrich <theinric>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: cww, donhoover, duck, erinn.looneytriggs, mpoole, opensource, pb, plyons, pm-eus, pvrabec, sgrubb, tao, theinric
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Although the previous release of the rsyslog packages replaced rklogd, a daemon that provided kernel logging, with a loadable module, it did not enable this functionality in the configuration. Consequent to this, rsyslog did not log the kernel messages at all. With this update, the /etc/rsyslog.conf configuration file has been corrected to include the "$ModLoad imklog" directive, and the kernel messages are now logged as expected.
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Last Closed: 2010-12-14 08:38:51 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 592039    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-12-07 22:06:04 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #592039 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-12-13 09:53:17 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
Although the previous release of the rsyslog packages replaced rklogd, a daemon that provided kernel logging, with a loadable module, it did not enable this functionality in the configuration. Consequent to this, rsyslog did not log the kernel messages at all. With this update, the /etc/rsyslog.conf configuration file has been corrected to include the "$ModLoad imklog" directive, and the kernel messages are now logged as expected.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-14 08:38:51 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0980.html