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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: Accepting syslog messages from a router
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:28:43 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Accepting syslog messages from a router


> I have my router set to send messages to syslog on my FreeBSD system
when
> connect attempts and the like are discarded, but nothing is being
logged.  When
> I look at traffic with tcpdump, there are lots of messages being sent
to FreeBSD
> by the router, but I don't know where they are going.  What do I have
to do to
> make this work?
>
> Currently I have syslogd starting with "-a 10.0.0.0/24:*" as options
(the router
> is at 10.0.0.30).  The router is supposed to be sending messages as
facility
> local1, so I have
>
> local1.*   /var/log/router.log

I am not sure if this will work for you or not but try this:

+local1
*.*        /var/log/router.log

I think you have to identify the facility with the "+".  Then on the
next line, "*.*" says "log everything" to your file.

HTH,

Drew

> in the syslog.conf file.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Is there a tool that will show me the contents of the packets being
sent by the
> router, so I can see exactly what facility and text it is actually
sending?
>
>
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