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  1. Bug #905419
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 905419

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: cloud-init messages going to syslog, not cloud-init.log

It seems this is possibly rsyslog or python logging related, because cloud-init did not change between oneiric and precise,. In oneiric, it works:
Dec 16 17:36:04 server-3395 [CLOUDINIT] __init__.py[DEBUG]: handling final-message with freq=None and args=[]
Dec 16 21:11:30 server-3395 [CLOUDINIT] cloud-init-cfg[INFO]: cloud-init-cfg ['apt-update-upgrade', 'always']
Dec 16 21:11:30 server-3395 [CLOUDINIT] __init__.py[DEBUG]: handling apt-update-upgrade with freq=always and args=[]

That final message in /var/log/cloud-init.log was generated when I just now (4 hours after booting) ran:
sudo cloud-init-cfg apt-update-upgrade always