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Random syslog message sent each random seconds
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random_syslog.sh
#!/bin/bash
POS=2
LEN=16
SECONDS_MAX=10
while true; do
str1=$( echo -n `date +\"%s\"` | md5sum | md5sum )
randstring="${str1:$POS:$LEN}"
logger -t "kafka-test" Random message "$randstring"
RANDOM_SEC=`shuf -i 1-$SECONDS_MAX -n 1`
sleep $RANDOM_SEC
done
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