From owner-freebsd-security Sat Oct 2 15: 2:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw6.pacbell.net (mail-gw6.pacbell.net [206.13.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0758315409 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madscientist@thegrid.net) Received: from remus (adsl-63-193-246-169.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.246.169]) by mail-gw6.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA01625 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 15:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19991002145813.0094ca10@mail.thegrid.net> X-Sender: i289861@mail.thegrid.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 15:02:37 -0700 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: The Mad Scientist Subject: Re: Syslog over serial In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990930061015.007ded30@pop.wanadoo.fr> References: <4.1.19990928190928.0097cf00@mail.thegrid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:10 AM 9/30/99 +0200, you wrote: >At 19:15 28/09/99 -0700, The Mad Scientist wrote: >> >>I've always seen this as the "recommended" way to do things. How do you >>set logging over serial lines up? Do I log to something like /dev/cuaa1? >>What do i set up on the other side? > >quite simply.. >just establish a p-t-p IP connection.. through /dev/lp0 for example. >use a reserved ip for this.. > >something like: > ifconfig lp0 inet 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 > >(others interface could have a normal IP .. or another reserved ip, it >doesn't matter.. if possible, use a completly different reserved class >for such things.. ie, if your ether/atm/fddi interface is using 192.168.x.x, >well, use 10.x.x.x for this.. just to really hide this ptp interface) > >then, in your syslog.conf, use something like this: > >*.emerg;*.alert;*err;*.notice;auth.* @192.168.0.11 > >>TIA, >>Dean > >hope this helps. > >Philippe. Great, thanks. What about connecting a few machines to a central logging server with this setup? Will I have to get a board for the logging server with a number of parallel ports? Can I get whatever hardware that is used to hook up multiple printers to a single machine? Thanks for the help, Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message