Why don't cfn-init logs get sent by rsyslog?

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Published on 2012-08-30T17:17:34Z Indexed on 2014/06/03 21:27 UTC
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I just signed up for Papertrail to aggregate logs from some AWS instances I'm setting up with CloudFormation::Init. I've followed the instructions and added *.* @logs.papertrailapp.com to the end of '/etc/rsyslog.conf'. Some logs are showing up on Papertrail, but notably the contents of '/var/log/cfn-init.log' never get there, and those are the ones I'm interested in right now.

Have I set up rsyslog incorrectly? Or do the CloudFormation::Init scripts just not use syslog to write log information?

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