I just realized that the duplicate entries are tagged with different sources.
One came from /var/log/syslog, and the other came from /var/log/syslog.2.gz
I grepped though /var/log/syslogs*, and can only find one pair of events with a particular process id... which splunk search app shows as happening twice with the exact same timestamp. The duplication lasts for a 24 hour period.
I was thinking that maybe log rotation created a condition to allow this, but the duplication continues for 24 hours.... far longer than it takes to rotate the logs.
Anyway, still not resolved, but extra information.
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