From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 4:37:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD4E37B404 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 04:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E6B43FBF for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 04:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dean@dragon.stack.nl) Received: by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 177311F190; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:37:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from dragon.stack.nl (dragon.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5011:207:e9ff:fe09:230]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC141F189; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:37:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by dragon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1600) id 3B9855F179; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:37:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:37:09 +0100 From: Dean Strik To: Chuck Rock Cc: "Michael K. Smith" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog problem Message-ID: <20030309123709.GD34099@dragon.stack.nl> References: <20030308174700.C73817-100000@chimera.noanet.net> <20030308204019.S86872@kira.epconline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030308204019.S86872@kira.epconline.net> X-Editor: VIM Rulez! http://www.vim.org/ X-MUD: Outerspace - telnet://mud.stack.nl:3333 X-Really: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Rock wrote: > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Michael K. Smith wrote: > > This might be your issue, because you haven't specified the service after > > you subnet. Try the following: > > > > /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 207.206.185.1/27:* -a 209.83.132.1/27:* > > Accordifn to the man page, that just specifies what port to listen on. By > default it's 514 syslog port. No, that's not what it says. I quote: ipaddr/masklen[:service] [...] If specified, _service_ is the name or number of an UDP service (see services(5)) the source packet must belong to. In other words, it's the port the remote syslog is sending from, not the port the local syslogd is listening on. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message