On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:59 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Alexander <thahartner at gmail.com> > > > However the following command : > > echo "HI" > logger -t test > > Resulted in the message appearing twice in /var/log/messages on my > CentOS 6 > > system. > I don't get duplicates on a CentOS 6 x86_64 VM of mine. Either one example (below) will suffice ... obviously eliminating the pipe is probably best. logger "blah" -t test echo "hi" | logger -t test And it doesn't matter which user I'm logged in as (privileged or non-privileged, it logs things just the same). Unless of course you wanted to log the contents of a file, then pipe it! ~]# cat /tmp/blah test one test two test three test four ~]# cat /tmp/blah | logger -t test ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages > Tested on CentOS 5.10 32bits/64bits and 6.5 64bits and I only get one > appearance... > Did you modify /etc/syslog.conf ? > Maybe there are two entries repeating the same facility? > The OP is using CentOS 6 which has replaced sysklogd with rsyslog. > > JD > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //