[CentOS] Pipe into logger duplicates messages in /var/log/messages

[David Benfell]

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On 03/03/2014 09:34 PM, Alexander wrote:
> I am trying to pipe the output from a process into syslog using the
> logger command. Initially I pipe the output into a separate file,
> but as it happens this filled up the disk when things went wrong.
> So I figured I redirect the output to syslog and let logrotate deal
> with the roll-over and archive of the file.
> 
> However the following command :
> 
> echo "HI" > logger -t test

What are the contents of the file HI in the working directory from
which you ran this command?

(I think you mean `echo "HI" | logger -t test`.)


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