From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 1 20:52:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7036E132 for ; Fri, 1 May 2015 20:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 383F91B86 for ; Fri, 1 May 2015 20:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-47.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t41KqcwW029676 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 May 2015 15:52:38 -0500 Message-ID: <5543E796.9030309@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 15:58:53 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor syslog issue References: <55422366.8060000@hiwaay.net> <554229CE.30009@infracaninophile.co.uk> <55422E43.8090206@hiwaay.net> <5542348D.8000109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <5542BC7F.7050602@hiwaay.net> <5542BEBA.5080207@hiwaay.net> <55431C23.8010809@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <55431C23.8010809@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 20:52:47 -0000 On 05/01/15 01:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/05/2015 00:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> syslogd on kabini1 should be accepting traffic from all ports: >>> >>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:19pm] 366 % ps -ax | grep syslog >>> 783 ?? Is 0:39.07 /usr/sbin/amd -p -a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host /etc/amd.map /net /etc/amd.map >>> 73506 ?? Is 0:00.10 /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 192.168.0.0/16:* -C -T >>> 8622 4 S+ 0:00.00 grep syslog >>> 73648 7 S+ 0:00.93 tcpdump port >>> >>> i.e. looks like the traffic is there, but syslogd isn't recording it (?) .... Any clues appreciated. >> *Aaaaaaaaaaaaack* !!!! Looks like ipfw was catching it, I had changed my >> rules to allow *some* udp traffic a few days ago, but didn't open it up >> enough. Just changed that & we'll see either later today or tomorrow at >> the next 'syslogd restart' .... Sorry for the noise :-/ .... > Looks like you've pretty much sorted the problem. > > A bit late now, but you would have been able to generate syslog traffic > at will on your RPi using logger(1). Although I guess you'll still want > to observe things over a syslog restart to make sure everything works > even if the source port changes. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Just tried that (logger) & it worked :-) *HOOOOORAY* !!!! Off to my next foulup :-) .... Thanks. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.