Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:04:39 +0300 From: Laurence Mayer <laurence@istraresearch.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslogd - Different Files Message-ID: <48DA3AE7.4030206@istraresearch.com> In-Reply-To: <48DA375A.9020804@ibctech.ca> References: <48DA2333.3070007@istraresearch.com> <48DA375A.9020804@ibctech.ca>
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Ok so you dont use `+host' etc as per the man pages. Can you please send the relevant parts of syslog.conf on a remote server on lanx.domain.com. Do you mean remote server syslog.config: local6.* @208.70.104.202 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Laurence Mayer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Over the last couple of days I have been trying to get syslogd to log >> messages received from remote hosts to different files. >> >> I have read the man pages: >> >> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE>; >> >> >> However it is very confusing what exactly to add to the syslog.conf >> file. I have tried numerous variations but still no success. >> >> Could someone please tell me or >> send an example of their syslog.conf file showing how this is done. > > Granted that there is likely more than one way to do it, heres how I do > it (in the servers syslogd.conf): > > local6.* /var/log/lanx.log > local7.* /var/log/fortigate.log > mail.debug /var/log/barracuda.log > > ...each log file represents a different remote host delivering the log > data. So, on lanx.domain.com, I point the syslog service to the IP of > the server, and tell it to use local6 as the facility. > > I then start syslogd on the server as such: > > /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 208.70.104.202/32:514 -a 208.70.104.205/32:514 \ > -a 208.70.104.1/32:514 -f /etc/syslogd.conf > > Steve
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