Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:44:14 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files? Message-ID: <4ED4D39E.8080606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED4B410.6040601@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4ED38578.1000501@gmail.com> <CA%2BtpaK0rkWX8G3hiapZkutK6xvb%2Bc0z6aTK=U=RsC=Pk68mCEA@mail.gmail.com> <4ED3CE66.4020903@gmail.com> <4ED3D9BF.701@my.gd> <4ED41C5F.3030906@gmail.com> <4ED41E53.6000403@radel.com> <4ED42273.7090509@gmail.com> <CA%2BtpaK2W8hPXrvH7k9B_mcFCkO1HEUgm7pPk_Y%2BJ-d7wr3-sMg@mail.gmail.com> <4ED4355A.8030905@gmail.com> <4ED4B410.6040601@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 11/29/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: >> As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I >> enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to >> the syslog server. > Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the base system as nc(1): > > % nc -v -u 192.0.2.1 514 > > Cheers, > > Matthew > I get this result: nc -v -u 192.168.1.120 514 Connection to 192.168.1.120 514 port [udp/syslog] succeeded! I'm not sure though if I should be getting any of the syslog messages that my router is sending to the rsyslog daemon though? I have tried but nothing displays on the server tty.
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