Date: 30 Jan 2005 10:24:23 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting up a syslog server to store Fortigate log files Message-ID: <44r7k3ey8o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <addc34c6050128082952bc37ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <addc34c6050128082952bc37ee@mail.gmail.com>
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Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> writes: > I have a Fortigate firewall which allows me to direct the logs to a > remote host (syslog server). I am running FreeBSD 4.9R -- do I simply > point my firewall to the IP of my server and the logs will > automagically appear in /var/log? Not quite; by default, FreeBSD runs syslogd in "secure" mode, which doesn't accept messages from remote machines. rc.conf(5) allows you to specify your own flags for syslogd(8).
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