From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 3:27:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0BC37B416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 03:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAQBRUC03404; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:27:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <007e01c1766d$57595670$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Tony Landells" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <200111260357.OAA03582@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: Accepting syslog messages from a router Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:27:31 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The default was "-s", which I changed in rc.conf to "-a 10.0.0.0/24:*"; if I understood correctly, this would tell syslogd to accept any remote messages coming from my own subnet (the router is at 10.0.0.30). But nothing was accepted with that. I finally tried running syslogd with _no_ options, and now the messages are being accepted. I'd still like to know why the -a option doesn't seem to work. I don't like leaving syslogd open to every machine on the network (even though nothing actually gets past the firewall). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Landells" To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 04:57 Subject: Re: Accepting syslog messages from a router > What is the actual command line for the running syslogd? > > If you also have "-s" (which is set by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) > then syslogd won't accept connections from other servers. > > If you don't have "-s", then try running syslogd with no options > to check whether you get anything, which will at least tell you > whether it's your command line or syslog.conf that needs fixing. > > Tony > -- > Tony Landells > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message