From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 1:50:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF4637C286 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAR9eC702648; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:40:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <005c01c17727$83766990$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Tony Landells" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <200111270229.NAA19877@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: Accepting syslog messages from a router Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:40:01 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony writes: > Did you do a "ps" listing while you were having > problems to check that the running syslogd had > the command line you expected? Yup. Looked fine. > If it looks fine, you may want to use the "-d" > argument as well (running the command by hand) > and shoot a couple of syslog messages from > somewhere else that match your address restriction, > and see what syslogd says it's doing with it. Unfortunately, the only other machine on the LAN is a WinNT machine, and I have no idea how to generate syslog messages from that, or even if it is possible to do so. I guess I'm probably being overcautious anyway, since nothing enters the LAN from the outside. Hmm ... let me just double-check to make sure I've got that port blocked! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message