[syslog-ng] Is logger an effective test tool on Solaris 10?

[Patrick H.]

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5431426
This seems very relevant. It would appear that solaris wont let anything 
other than the kernel write to the kern facility.

Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:36:51 AM
From: Chuck <chuck.carson at gmail.com>
To: syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng] Is logger an effective test tool on Solaris 10?
>
> I am using the following script to test syslog-ng. (Running this from 
> the same machine as the syslog-ng server):
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> d=`date '+%y%m%d_%H%M%S'`
> logger -p kern.debug    "__kern.debug__ $d"
> sleep 1;
>
>
> d=`date '+%y%m%d_%H%M%S'`
> logger -p kern.crit     "__kern.crit__ $d"
> sleep 1;
>
> d=`date '+%y%m%d_%H%M%S'`
> logger -p kern.info <http://kern.info>     "__kern.info__ $d"
> sleep 1;
>
> However, here is how the messages are being seen within syslog-ng:
> Jul 21 10:30:35 log01 cars: [ID 702911 user.debug] __kern.debug__ 
> 100721_103035
> Jul 21 10:30:36 log01 cars: [ID 702911 user.crit] __kern.crit__ 
> 100721_103036
> Jul 21 10:30:37 log01 cars: [ID 702911 user.info <http://user.info>] 
> __kern.info__ 100721_103037
>
> The facility is being seen as user and not kern...
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Thx,
>
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