remote syslog(3)ging behaving strangely?

[Erik]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:13:03PM +0100, Frank Steinborn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have several jails that push their syslog to the syslogd on the
> host. This is on FreeBSD 7.2. The only line for syslog.conf in the
> jails is:
> 
> *.*                                             @haydn.nognu.de
> 
> On the host I have a standard syslog.conf but all.log is enabled.
> 
> The problem now is that logs from the jails _only_ appear in all.log
> and i wonder why. I expected them to be sorted like configured in
> host's /etc/syslog.conf and I'm relatively sure it does work this way
> on 8, though I can't verify that right now.
> 
> Any explanations for this beharviour?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank

Did you specify syslogd_flags="-vv" in your jails?  This will add the
facility and priority to the log message, which will allow your host
to direct them to the correct log files.

Erik