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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #905419
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 905419

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

I'm moving this to package rsyslog, I've verified that this is a regression caused by using rsyslog from precise (5.8.6-1ubuntu3).
The issue is fixed and demonstrable by:
 $ url="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/rsyslog_5.8.1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb"
 $ wget "$url" -O "${url##*/}"
 $ sudo dpkg -i "${url##*/}"
 $ sudo cloud-init start

After the above, a message from 'cloud-init start' will be in /var/log/cloud-init.log. Running that otherwise would put the mangled message in /var/log/syslog.