Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:17:27 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> To: Patrick Gelsema <gelsema@superhero.nl> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Logging from a remote system Message-ID: <20020106211636.V93879-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <a1ajj9$oqt$1@news1.xs4all.nl>
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smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: >Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:37:28 +0100 >From: Patrick Gelsema <gelsema@superhero.nl> >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Logging from a remote system > >Hi, > >i've got a firewallbox (router.superhero.nl, 2 nics) which keeps my internet >connection up and running. On the machine itself i enabled forwarding of >messages to my FreeBsd 4.4 box. On this machine i get no errors. > >the command i used is: syslogd -R 192.168.163.25 -O /dev/null > >This worked with Kiwi Enterprise logs, however since i lately installed an >FreeBSD machine i want to use the build in capabilities of this server. > >On 192.168.163.25 box i changed the syslog.conf and added the following >lines at the end of the file > >+router.superhero.nl >*.* /var/log/router >+192.168.254.100 >*.* /var/log/router > > >i killed the syslog daemon and started it manually by > >syslogd -a 192.168.254.0/24 > >No errors are displayed on the screen. The firewallbox doesnt complain >either. However i cannot log messages from these machine to /var/log/router, >and yeah, the file has been touched. > >Am i doing something wrong ? > >If anyone could shed a light on this, i would be thankful > >With friendly regards, > >Patrick Gelsema > Try using syslog-ng from port, it may work better. I had similar problems with syslog when logging from a cisco router. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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