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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:18:54 -0600
From:      list <list@siddiquifamily.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Syslog and Cisco
Message-ID:  <200311011418.54589.list@siddiquifamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <200311011411.31402.list@siddiquifamily.org>
References:  <200311011133.39486.list@siddiquifamily.org> <20031101180619.GA9691@bps.jodocus.org> <200311011411.31402.list@siddiquifamily.org>

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Thanks it worked!!

On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:11 pm, list wrote:
> that service * worked!
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:06 pm, Joost Bekkers wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0600, list wrote:
> > > I am trying to send cisco's syslog to Syslogd and i have been
> > > unsuccessful. I have modified the syslog.conf to list
> > > local6.*	/var/log/cisco. I have changed rc.conf to start syslog with -a
> > > and removed the -s command. I have checked with logger. While using the
> > > logger from FreeBsd i am able to log meesage in to the cisco.log file.
> > > However from network i am not able to do so. I looked tcpdump see the
> > > packets but nothing shows in cisco.log or to all the other log files.
> >
> > You have to specify a 'service' of * on the syslogd commandline (with
> > the -a option). By default syslogd only accepts packets coming from
> > the sysog port on the remote host.  Cisco uses a dynamicly allocated
> > port for sending the logging.
> >
> > Hope this helps.



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