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Asked: 2026-05-18T00:50:31+00:00

I have two machines, here and there. there creates an output file and sends

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I have two machines, “here” and “there”.

“there” creates an output file and sends it to “here” for some processing. “here” runs a shell script on the output and uses logger to send the results to a syslog aggregator. Unfortunately, the log aggregator sees the message as coming from “here”, but I want it appear that the message came from “there”.

In short, I run:

echo "Hello World"|logger -p local1.alert

and get:

2010-11-09T15:40:11.516811-06:00 here logger: Hello World

but want:

2010-11-09T15:40:11.516811-06:00 there logger: Hello World

Is there a way to use logger to make the traffic appear from a different host? The actual message format I use cannot be changed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe the answer with logger is “no”.

    logger probably uses the syslog(3) library routine which has no provision for setting the host in a log entry.

    You could write your own version of logger that sends the logs over the wire the way you want. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html

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