From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 20 20:54:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8BC150C7 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 3153"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F8X00KHIHLPEO@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 23:53:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 23:53:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: syslogd "fixes" In-reply-to: <199903210058.SAA15530@rrnet.com> To: Chad Dubuque Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you verified that you have a local7 entry in /etc/syslog.conf? Our routers use that facility by default. I have it going at work, and it works fine to my 3.1 box. From my /etc/syslog.conf: local7.info /var/log/ciscosa.log Joe Clarke On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Chad Dubuque wrote: > I have a 2.2.7-RELEASE and a 3.1-RELEASE machine. I'm trying to send the 3.1 > machine syslog messages from a Cisco router. The 2.1.7 machine accepts the > messages fine, but the 3.1 doesn't. I've run "tcpdump" and can see the > messages getting to the machine, but syslogd doesn't seem to like them. I've > run syslogd without any options and with "-a 10.1.1.8:*" to try to get it to > like messages from the Cisco. > > The 3.1 is at 10.1.9.43 -netmask 255.0.0.0, the router is at 10.1.1.1. Am I > missing something obvious, or is there a problem with syslogd now that its > default behaviour is to ignore messages from the outside unless configured > to accept them? > > Thanks (in advance) for the help. > > -- > Chad Dubuque cdubuque@rrnet.com Fargo, N.D. (USA) > Red River Net - Internet Communications http://www.rrnet.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message