Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:06:19 +0100 From: Joost Bekkers <joost@jodocus.org> To: list <list@siddiquifamily.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog and Cisco Message-ID: <20031101180619.GA9691@bps.jodocus.org> In-Reply-To: <200311011133.39486.list@siddiquifamily.org> References: <200311011133.39486.list@siddiquifamily.org>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0600, list wrote: > I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been unsuccessful. I > have modified the syslog.conf to list local6.* /var/log/cisco. I have changed > rc.conf to start syslog with -a and removed the -s command. I have checked > with logger. While using the logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in > to the cisco.log file. However from network i am not able to do so. I looked > tcpdump see the packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other > log files. > You have to specify a 'service' of * on the syslogd commandline (with the -a option). By default syslogd only accepts packets coming from the sysog port on the remote host. Cisco uses a dynamicly allocated port for sending the logging. Hope this helps. -- greetz Joost joost@jodocus.org
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