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From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: Re: Using syslogd
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Make sure /etc/syslog.conf does not contain any spaces.  Everything should
be TAB separated.  If you use spaces, things will fail silently.  You'll
also want to confirm that 514/udp is being opened using netstat or
sockstat.  Looks like that should be okay, though.

Joe Clarke

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 scott.nolde@mediaone.net wrote:

> I'm having a helluva time getting syslogd to log the syslog packets from a
> cisco router.  Here's my setup:
>
> in /etc/rc.conf:
> syslogd_enable="YES"
> syslogd_flags="-a 192.168.1.249"
>
> in /etc/syslogd.conf:
> *.* /var/log/messages
>
> I'm receiving packets at the network interface and have made an ipfw rule
> to allow them specifically (even on an OPEN firewall):
> 63000    188    18944 allow udp from 192.168.1.249 to any 514
>
> My loghost has ip address of 192.168.1.200, so the above *should* work
> according to the man pages.
>
> I've even verified the ability to log to a linux laptop, but not to my
> FreeBSD4.3-STABLE box.
>
> Can anyone provide a clue as to why it's not logging?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
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