CentOS - Mar 2014 - Pipe into logger duplicates messages in /var/log/messages

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

Resulted in the message appearing twice in /var/log/messages on my CentOS 6
system. I tested it on Gentoo as well where it behaved correctly, only 
showing
a single message.

Any pointers on why CentOS duplicates these messages.

Alex

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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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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.
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?

JD