2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
index deeea8ba65..2944d3d06c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ if [ -f /etc/syslog-startup.conf ]; then
         if [ "$REDUCE" = "yes" ]; then
                 SYSLOG_ARGS="$SYSLOG_ARGS -S"
         fi
+        if [ "$DROPDUPLICATES" = "yes" ]; then
+            SYSLOG_ARGS="$SYSLOG_ARGS -D"
+        fi
         if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then
             SYSLOG_ARGS="$SYSLOG_ARGS -l $LOGLEVEL"
         fi
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
index 553490bd7d..fda450aa0d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DESTINATION=file		# log destinations (buffer file remote)
 LOGFILE=/var/log/messages       # where to log (file)
 REMOTE=loghost:514              # where to log (syslog remote)
 REDUCE=no                       # reduce-size logging
+DROPDUPLICATES=no               # whether to drop duplicate log entries
 #ROTATESIZE=0                   # rotate log if grown beyond X [kByte]
 #ROTATEGENS=3                   # keep X generations of rotated logs
 BUFFERSIZE=64                   # size of circular buffer [kByte]