From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 3 13:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDF937B408 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f93KnlN43539; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BBB79EA.2070401@magpage.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:49:46 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010807 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Reichert Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd problems... References: <3BBB5E9F.8030803@magpage.com> <20011003161624.C91077@numachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Reichert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:53:19PM -0400, Daniel Frazier wrote: > >>The process was >>still running but nothing was being logged, not local stuff and not >>stuff from remote machines. HUP'ing syslogd didn't fix this condition, >>I had to kill it then start it back up. >> > > Are you logging to /dev/console _and_ using a serial console? > nope and nope. It's logging to /var/log over ethernet. The remote hosts that log to this box simply have a line like this in /etc/syslog.conf: *.* @216.155.xxx.xxx shouldn't that be sufficient? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message