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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:07:08 -0500
From:      Sing Song <song@isot.com>
To:        "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD5 syslogd not logging
Message-ID:  <1056467228.3ef8691c3b65a@webmail.isot.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a701c339a7$3251d010$11fd2fd8@westbend.net>
References:  <1056158489.3ef3b319e5313@webmail.isot.com> <00a701c339a7$3251d010$11fd2fd8@westbend.net>

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Quoting "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>:

> From: "Sing Song" <song@isot.com>
> > I replaced my old server (FBSD 4.3) with new FBSD 5.0.  And now I can't
> get
> > the syslogd to log from my routers.  Put the old server back on and logs
> fine,
> > so the config on routers are ok.
> >
> > I have configured the /etc/syslog.conf file to exactly as in old box and
> > restarted syslogd.  Is there something I'm missing?  Please help.
> >
> > I tried:
> >   syslogd -a *isot.com:*
> >   syslogd -a *.isot.com:*
> >   syslogd -a *.isot.com
> >
> According to the man page this last on should work.
> 
> How are you stoping/starting syslogd? (reboot, /etc/rc.d/syslogd, ...)
> 
> If your using /etc/rc.d/syslogd, make sure that /etc/rc.conf has
> syslogd_flags defined to the correct value.
> 
> Is the FBSD 5.x system using the same IP address as the old FBSD 4.x
> system?
> If it's not you may need to either change the FBSD 5.x IP address to the
> old
> 4.x IP address or change the syslog address on the routers.
> 
> Scot

I stop and restart with 'killall -HUP syslogd'
I'm using '/usr/sbin/syslogd'
The IP address and the port is same.

What's funny is the logfiles to turn over as set in syslog.conf.


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