Devuan bug report logs - #720
New rsyslog logs '[localhost]' instead of the real hostname

Package: rsyslog; Maintainer for rsyslog is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for rsyslog is src:rsyslog.

Reported by: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:50:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: upstream

Found in version 8.2210.0-1devuan1

Fixed in version 8.2210.0-2devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

Forwarded to https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/4975

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>, 720@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#720: New rsyslog logs '[localhost]' instead of the real
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Klaus,

Thanks for this.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Package: rsyslog
> Version: 8.2210.0-1devuan1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Since rsyslog update today from 8.2208.0-1devuan1 to 8.2210.0-1devuan1,
> all log entries do not log the hostname anymore but instead using
> '[localhost]' (literally).

Was this logged as 'localhost' before the update?

Reading the upstream changelog, I am unclear what has changed and if it is
intentional.

> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/rsyslog [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/rsyslog'

Can you check the perms on this file? Why is there an error? It should be world
readable (644).

But it may be unrelated...

Thanks.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #720 New rsyslog logs '[localhost]' instead of the real hostname

Devuan bug report logs - #720
New rsyslog logs '[localhost]' instead of the real hostname