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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 1998 01:02:13 +0200
From:      Rocco Lucia <rlucia@utopianet.net>
To:        "Timothy R. Platt" <tplatt@nethampton.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sysloging to a remote host
Message-ID:  <19980808010213.A18953@utopianet.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04003a00b1f1c739e9eb@[204.141.112.245]>; from Timothy R. Platt on Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 06:20:05AM -0700
References:  <v04003a00b1f1c739e9eb@[204.141.112.245]>

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On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 06:20:05AM -0700, Timothy R. Platt wrote:
> Should be simple enough, but I just can't get this to work.
> 
> In syslog.conf on 192.168.2.1:
> 
> *.notice;kern.debug;mail.cri			/var/log/messages
> *.notice;kern.debug;mail.cri			@192.168.2.2
> 
> And on 192.168.2.2:
> 
> syslogd -a 192.168.2.1/255.255.255.0
> 
>
>
> 
> Is there anything required in the syslog.conf file on 192.168.2.2?  The
> syslogd/syslog.conf man pages make no mention of it.  Once I do get it
> working, I would like all the messages from the remote machine in a
> separate file, if syslog doesn't take care of that by default.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Tim
> 
syslogd -a 192.168.2.1/32:*

this should work, allowing just .1 host to be logged
by .2

I don't know if it is possible to filter directly from
syslogd incoming messages, but you can easily do it
'cause you got the ip address of the host who sent
the message in the logfile

rocco


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