Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:31:50 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog server not logging remote machines to file? Message-ID: <4EC7CBE6.8030509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201111191521.pAJFLGAP065517@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201111191521.pAJFLGAP065517@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On 11/19/2011 05:21 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > Kaya Saman<kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a really strange problem which seems to either be a bug with >> the syslog server service or perhaps because I'm running jails on my >> system..... >> >> I can log my router syslog information but somehow the syslog server >> doesn't put the information into the designated file; which should be >> /var/log/cisco857w.log??? >> > The -usual- 'gotcha' for this situation is that you have to _create_ the > file FIRST, and then tell syslogd to reload it's configuration. (i.e. > 'kill -HUP' the PID for syslogd) > > That's ok, however due to me running syslogd in debug mode anyway - ctrl + c should do that anyway..... I performed a: ps aux | grep syslog with no result other then my 'grepping' displayed. Meaning that the syslog daemon should have reloaded right? - I mean it's standard for everything else which works in that way!
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