From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Jan 30 16:19:22 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 CE10816A4CE
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:19:22 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.198])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD2143D41
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:19:21 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from nocmonkey@gmail.com)
Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so703243rne
        for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:19:20 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
	s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references;
	b=S6rkLuyg7cwJUpTx0+Z1a1dE6LGxMpQ+pbbiUwQLZf5yHR/MeBGn/t5tA5eGr+3+Y+om/OqdOlJKF0p1KsWcdO8vaSM7mRRdPpoldJvBF8U5J1qGnTH4hnoiO9mQS53FOD3Ry0YqKy0Szi5VBuBb/n0bB2oUKlf5GbQX6MgOylw=
Received: by 10.38.160.49 with SMTP id i49mr195978rne;
        Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:19:20 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.38.22.7 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:19:20 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <addc34c6050130081960e98342@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:19:20 -0500
From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <44r7k3ey8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <addc34c6050128082952bc37ee@mail.gmail.com>
	 <44r7k3ey8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org
Subject: Re: Setting up a syslog server to store Fortigate log files
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:19:22 -0000

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