Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:53:19 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Bill Schoolcraft" <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: doug@polands.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0, allow remote logging? Message-ID: <62464.209.103.215.99.1143064399.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603221238340.16706@liam.billschoolcraft.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602032143280.7777@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <43E48BB8.7000906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602042329000.16821@liam.billschoolcraft.com> <eae8cb0a0603221231w1aeb74fs151b9c89fab1ed6d@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0603221238340.16706@liam.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Wed, March 22, 2006 14:40, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Wed, 22 Mar 2006 it looks like Doug Poland composed: > >> On 2/5/06, Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: >>>> I've been trying to get 6.0 to allow itself to accept logs. >>>> >> I'm having the same problem getting syslogd to "work" on a >> 6.0-STABLE box. My ps -waux command shows the -a <ipaddr>, and >> sockstat -l confirms that it's listening on port 514/udp. Logging >> works from the localhost only, not from any remote hosts. >> > > Yes, I too had the issue and had to use my SuSE-9.3 box to receive > logs... Maybe it's the curse of the "dot-oh" release(s) who knows. > With a little more googlin' and a lot of trial and error, I have it working now... --------------------------------------- in /etc/rc.conf: syslogd_enable="YES" syslogd_flags="-a 192.168.1.0/26:*" --------------------------------------- in /etc/syslog.conf: !* +192.168.1.0/26 *.* /var/log/messages ------------------------------------ doug@seth% logger -h lebanon -t TEST "from seth" ------------------------------------ doug@egypt% logger -h lebanon -t TEST "from egypt" ------------------------------------ tail /var/log/messages Mar 22 15:40:55 <5.3> lebanon syslogd: exiting on signal 2 Mar 22 15:42:19 lebanon syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Mar 22 15:43:08 192.168.1.12 from seth Mar 22 15:43:39 192.168.1.10 from egypt Not sure why the -t tag didn't come through, but I'm glad to get something anyway. -- Regards, Doug
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