Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:06:55 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK0rkWX8G3hiapZkutK6xvb%2Bc0z6aTK=U=RsC=Pk68mCEA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED38578.1000501@gmail.com> References: <4ED38578.1000501@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will > actually write my network equipments' logs to files. > > After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of > which I posted to this mailing list and wasn't able to fix even with more > experienced peoples help I am now looking for an alternative! > > > My issue with syslogd was the fact that the logging information would be > sent to my system and that could evidently be seen, however, the software > didn't write to the log file specified for whatever reason :-( > > > During debug I started syslogd using the -d and -vv options, checked the > log file in question was created and had correct permission. Everything > seemed fine but nothing even tried to write to file. > > > Basically I am looking for just something that will write all my external > logs to file and can keep syslogd for the system specific logs as that's no > problem. > > > Since at the time I was using FreeBSD 8.0 CURRENT x64, I upgraded to 8.2 > on the basis that my system and hence ports collection was out-of-date; but > unfortunately the update didn't solve my issues regarding syslog. - which > is way odd considering I had FreeBSD 8.1 or 8.2 x86 edition running on an > old (now packed-up) PIV which did my logging without any issues. - The > current setup is the same except for the fact that am running Jails and am > on a 64bit platform. > Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More
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