[Preston] Spurious syslog entries

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

'ellow,

I wonder if any of you can shed any light on this; I've had this really
annoying problem with my syslog for ages (possibly even since I set up
the server) and have tried quite a few times to fix it, to no avail.

My server is running Debian Woody.  The problem I am having is that all
syslog messages appear twice in the syslog.  Whether they are message
from syslogd itself, popa3d, dhcp*, postfix, apache2 or anything.  All
of them appear twice.

Has anyone had a similar problem?  Any info would be greatly
appreciated.  I have attached my syslog.conf file from /etc.  Hope this
helps.

bye just now,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>
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#  /etc/syslog.conf	Configuration file for syslogd.
#
#			For more information see syslog.conf(5)
#			manpage.

#
# First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
#

auth,authpriv.*			-/var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none		-/var/log/syslog
cron.*				-/var/log/cron.log
daemon.*			-/var/log/daemon.log
kern.*				-/var/log/kern.log
lpr.*				-/var/log/lpr.log
mail.*				-/var/log/mail.log
user.*				-/var/log/user.log
uucp.*				-/var/log/uucp.log

#
# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.info			-/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn			-/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err			-/var/log/mail.err

# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit			-/var/log/news/news.crit
news.err			-/var/log/news/news.err
news.notice			-/var/log/news/news.notice

#
# Some `catch-all' logfiles.
#
*.=debug;\
	auth,authpriv.none;\
	news.none;mail.none	-/var/log/debug
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
	auth,authpriv.none;\
	cron,daemon.none;\
	mail,news.none		-/var/log/messages

#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
*.emerg				*

#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
#daemon,mail.*;\
#	news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
#	*.=debug;*.=info;\
#	*.=notice;*.=warn	/dev/tty8

# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
# 
#    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
#
# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
#      busy site..
#
#daemon.*;mail.*;\
#	news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
#	*.=debug;*.=info;\
#	*.=notice;*.=warn	|/dev/xconsole

*   -/var/log/syslog
*.* -/var/log/syslog