Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:19:20 -0500 From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: Setting up a syslog server to store Fortigate log files Message-ID: <addc34c6050130081960e98342@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44r7k3ey8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <addc34c6050128082952bc37ee@mail.gmail.com> <44r7k3ey8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 30 Jan 2005 10:24:23 -0500, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have a Fortigate firewall which allows me to direct the logs to a > > remote host (syslog server). I am running FreeBSD 4.9R -- do I simply > > point my firewall to the IP of my server and the logs will > > automagically appear in /var/log? > > Not quite; by default, FreeBSD runs syslogd in "secure" mode, which > doesn't accept messages from remote machines. rc.conf(5) allows you > to specify your own flags for syslogd(8). So, in theory, after I find out what flags to set with syslogd, I would then specify them in my rc.conf, and I would be off to the races (of remote logging)? Or do I edit syslog.conf? Thank you, ...D
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