On 2008-03-08, Jose Fragoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These messages carry basically (with respect to my > analysis) four bits of information: date and time; > IP address; duration of the connection; blacklists. > > What I want to know is what exacly was repeated from > the last message. All of last three bits of information > (not including date and time)?
Yes, just that (see the source to syslogd; search for the text "last message repeated" to find where in the file). > Secondly, I would like to know if there some way of > disabling this kind of summarization by syslogd. See above re: the source... But you know that the identical message was repeated, as many times as mentioned in the message, with the first repeat sometime after the previous log entry, and the last repeat at the time of the "last message repeated" line. You lose a little precision in the timing but probably good enough for most statistics, and it stops certain failure modes from filling your logging disk quite so quickly.
