{"id":1388,"date":"2011-11-01T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2011-11-01T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:06:55","slug":"explaining-syslog-to-rh-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/explaining-syslog-to-rh-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Syslog to RH Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were my expectations too high?<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nSupport, what RHEL service is logging this?  rhnsd?  yum-updatesd?\r\nIt should show the process name in the syslog output.  Please fix?\r\n\r\nOct 27 10:00:04 rcf-monitor : 4 updates available<\/pre>\n<p>Response:<\/p>\n<blockquote name=\"SupportStaff\"><p>I think that rfc-monitor is likely a third-party service of some sort. I haven&#8217;t been able to find any mention of it internally or any package or file with that name on RHN. So I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s yum or rhnsd talking.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nSupport,\r\n\r\nSyslog logs the hostname.  rcf-monitor is the hostname.\r\n\r\nProper syslogging looks like this, where you will note\r\n\"ntpd\" as the service responsible for generating the\r\nsyslog line.\r\n\r\nNov  1 03:52:51 rcf-monitor ntpd[27018]: message here...\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were my expectations too high? Support, what RHEL service is logging this? rhnsd? yum-updatesd? It should show the process name&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kickflop.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}