Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:23:56 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How To Receive Syslog Messages From Another Device? Message-ID: <15161.2940.652129.5196@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <52304245@toto.iv>
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Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> types: > I have a 3Com ADSL router for my home network. I have found that it > (according to the docs) has the capability to send log messages to syslogd > on my FBSD box. I think I've set up the router correctly as it shows that > it's sent 126 messages but I have received none on my FBSD box. I assume > that there's some setup required with FBSD to allow it to receive the > messages. I've read the man page for syslog.conf and restarted syslogd > with -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:* where the xxx is the ip of my router. Yet I am > still not receiving messages. I have searched the 3Com site for a "how to" > but could find none. Does anybody have any ideas on what I might need to do > to get this working or what additional information I need to find? Hmm - it works fine for me, without the ":*" as I'm going from FBSD to FBSD. You do need to make sure that syslogd is started without "-s", as that causes it to ignore the -a. If syslog is sending packets from the syslog udp port, you might try dropping the ":*". If nothing else works, enable a firewall on the destination box set to log everything, and see what's getting sent to it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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