[Bug 905419] Re: cloud-init messages going to syslog, not cloud-init.log

[Scott Moser]

I'm moving this to package rsyslog, I've verified that this is a regression caused by using rsyslog from precise (5.8.6-1ubuntu3).
The issue is fixed and demonstrable by:
 $ url="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/rsyslog_5.8.1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb" 
 $ wget "$url" -O "${url##*/}"
 $ sudo dpkg -i "${url##*/}"
 $ sudo cloud-init start

After the above, a message from 'cloud-init start' will be in /var/log
/cloud-init.log.  Running that otherwise would put the mangled message
in /var/log/syslog.


** Description changed:

  on boot of a precise image, I did not see messages in /var/log/cloud-
  init.log as expected.
  
  I noticed that some of them are in /var/log/syslog:
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 d-init-cfg[INFO]: cloud-init-cfg ['all', 'config']
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 it__.py[DEBUG]: handling mounts with freq=None and args=[]
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 SourceEc2.py[DEBUG]: unable to convert swap to a device
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 kernel: [   83.058563] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 it__.py[DEBUG]: handling ssh-import-id with freq=None and args=[]
  Dec 16 16:41:30 server-3393 sh_import_id.py[DEBUG]: importing ssh ids. cmd = ['sudo', '-Hu', 'ubuntu', 'ssh-import-id', 'smoser']
  
+ I'm not sure where the beginning of those log statements are going.
  
- I'm not sure where the beginning of those log statements are going.
+ cloud-init uses python logging, and places the following content in /etc/rsyslog.d/21-cloudinit.conf:
+ # Log cloudinit generated log messages to file
+ :syslogtag, isequal, "[CLOUDINIT]" /var/log/cloud-init.log
+ 
+ # comment out the following line to allow CLOUDINIT messages through.
+ # Doing so means you'll also get CLOUDINIT messages in /var/log/syslog
+ & ~
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: cloud-init 0.6.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-4.10-virtual 3.2.0-rc5
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-4-virtual x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Dec 16 17:29:28 2011
  Ec2AMI: ami-00000102
  Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova
  Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
  Ec2Kernel: unavailable
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: cloud-init
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Package changed: cloud-init (Ubuntu) => rsyslog (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: regression-release

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