From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 17:45:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from illusion.unixfreak.org (illusion.unixfreak.org [207.235.5.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE84315076 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:45:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@illusion.unixfreak.org) Received: (from dima@localhost) by illusion.unixfreak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA69265 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:45:23 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199912120145.TAA69265@illusion.unixfreak.org> Subject: syslog To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:45:23 -0600 (CST) From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, i'm having problems using syslogd's network feature. it appears that it receives and logs messages from other machines properly, but it refuses to generate the packets. i have the following line in syslog.conf on illusion.unixfreak.org: local5.* @shift.unixfreak.org however, when i do `logger -p local5.notice test1` the message does not appear on shift. when i manually connect to udp port 514 (syslog) on shift the message i type gets logged just fine. this is also true in the reverse - shift wont send messages to illusion. syslogd is started as `syslogd -l /etc/bind.root/dev/log` on both machines. what am i missing? any ideas? thanks in advance, --dima -- Dima Dorfman /-----------------------------------------------------\ | irc: eclipze@efnet/dalnet | whois: DD10140@internic | | email: dima@unixfreak.org | http: www.unixfreak.org | \-----------------------------------------------------/ Public PGP key: http://cobra.shellux.net/~dima/dima.asc or http://www.unixfreak.org/dima.asc A0 89 CC 7D 60 F2 DE 25 AF 34 0D CB 6E B8 0C E9 Who is 'BSD' and why should we Free him? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message