Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 15:02:37 -0700 From: The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog over serial Message-ID: <4.1.19991002145813.0094ca10@mail.thegrid.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990930061015.007ded30@pop.wanadoo.fr> References: <4.1.19990928190928.0097cf00@mail.thegrid.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909281522590.41067-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <xzpu2oed7ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 06:10 AM 9/30/99 +0200, you wrote: >At 19:15 28/09/99 -0700, The Mad Scientist wrote: >> >>I've always seen this as the "recommended" way to do things. How do you >>set logging over serial lines up? Do I log to something like /dev/cuaa1? >>What do i set up on the other side? > >quite simply.. >just establish a p-t-p IP connection.. through /dev/lp0 for example. >use a reserved ip for this.. > >something like: > ifconfig lp0 inet 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 > >(others interface could have a normal IP .. or another reserved ip, it >doesn't matter.. if possible, use a completly different reserved class >for such things.. ie, if your ether/atm/fddi interface is using 192.168.x.x, >well, use 10.x.x.x for this.. just to really hide this ptp interface) > >then, in your syslog.conf, use something like this: > >*.emerg;*.alert;*err;*.notice;auth.* @192.168.0.11 > >>TIA, >>Dean > >hope this helps. > >Philippe. Great, thanks. What about connecting a few machines to a central logging server with this setup? Will I have to get a board for the logging server with a number of parallel ports? Can I get whatever hardware that is used to hook up multiple printers to a single machine? Thanks for the help, Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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