Comment 4 for bug 451881

just recording this option:
$ cat /etc/rsyslog.d/48-logger.conf
# logger by default writes user.notice. get those to /dev/console
user.=notice /dev/console

That would send all 'logger' messages to /dev/console.

Its not completely sufficent here though as we cannot be sure that rsyslog is running when ec2-init runs. In all likelyhood it is, but we absolutely want ssh key to console.