From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 17:45:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7CB16A4D7 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F4413C4B9 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:45:33 -0400 id 0005643E.46016F3D.000165F4 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by mx01 (envelope-from bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com) with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 12:44:23 -0500 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" To: Guido Demmenie In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Collaborative Fusion, Inc. Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:45:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1174499132.24543.354.camel@soundwave.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: remote logging with syslogd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:45:34 -0000 run syslogd in the foreground without daemonizing: $ sudo syslogd -dv [flags] If you don't see anything, tcpdump(8) and validate that UDP/514 packets are coming in. ~BAS On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:35 +0100, Guido Demmenie wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to put up a remote logging server. I want to let my > Airport Express send its logs to my FreeBSD server. > > So I said to my Airport to send its logs to the internal ip of my > server, I suppose it works because that's what Apple hardware does. > Now I did the following things on my bsdbox: > > > I appended to syslog.conf: > > # Log remote Airport Express > +airport > *.* /var/log/airport.log > !* > > I touched /var/log/airport.log and it has rw-r----- root:wheel rights > > And to rc.conf I added: > > syslogd_enable="YES" > syslogd_flags="-b myhostname.intranet -a *.intranet" > > I restarted syslogd via: > # /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart > > I suppose it should work, but nothing appears in /var/log/airport and > there should be something that it listens for input or not? > > Also I checked netstat -a | grep syslog > udp4 0 0 myhostname.intranet..syslo *.* > > So it looks like it is not listening. > > Anyone any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > --Guido > > www.rottnic.nl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.