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Document syslog behavior especially priority and RHEL #250

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Setting security.syslog=true causes the MISP server to send copious details to the system log via syslog, and not just about security (successful/failed authentication) either, so the setting is a bit misnamed.

The MISP syslog plugin MISP/app/Plugin/SysLog/Lib/SysLog.php sends messages using syslog facility "LOCAL0". Error messages go at priority error, warning messages go at priority warning, but the plugin maps all other actions especially info to syslog priority DEBUG.

On a RHEL7 server the config file /etc/rsyslogd.conf has no rule for facility LOCAL0, at priority debug. As a result the regular MISP messages like "added event" are silently dropped.

I don't know how syslog is configured on Ubuntu.

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