From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: In our architecture, while testing hardware, it is often useful to be able to post-proces the messages file, doing things like counting the number of various messages occurring over time. The task is made more difficult by the unpredictable occurrence of "last message repeated N times" which apparently is an optimization in the syslogd that can't be turned off. This is a request to provide the user the option to turn off this optimization at syslogd startup time. A patch to 1.4.1 which does so is (will be) attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. bash: for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10;do logger -t TEST "Correctable Memory Error"; sleep 15;done 2. watch /var/log/messages for "last message repeated N times" Actual Results: Aug 15 15:16:44 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error Aug 15 15:17:29 clarsen last message repeated 3 times Aug 15 15:18:44 clarsen last message repeated 5 times Expected Results: Aug 15 15:16:44 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error Aug 15 15:16:59 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error Aug 15 15:17:14 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error Aug 15 15:17:29 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error Aug 15 15:17:44 clarsen TEST: Correctable Memory Error ...etc... Additional info:
Created attachment 70924 [details] patch diff file for syslogd.c and sysklogd.8 for 1.4.1
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.