Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:49:30 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Laurence Mayer <laurence@istraresearch.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslogd - Different Files Message-ID: <48DA375A.9020804@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <48DA2333.3070007@istraresearch.com> References: <48DA2333.3070007@istraresearch.com>
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Laurence Mayer wrote: > > Hi, > > Over the last couple of days I have been trying to get syslogd to log > messages received from remote hosts to different files. > > I have read the man pages: > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE>; > > > However it is very confusing what exactly to add to the syslog.conf > file. I have tried numerous variations but still no success. > > Could someone please tell me or > send an example of their syslog.conf file showing how this is done. Granted that there is likely more than one way to do it, heres how I do it (in the servers syslogd.conf): local6.* /var/log/lanx.log local7.* /var/log/fortigate.log mail.debug /var/log/barracuda.log ...each log file represents a different remote host delivering the log data. So, on lanx.domain.com, I point the syslog service to the IP of the server, and tell it to use local6 as the facility. I then start syslogd on the server as such: /usr/sbin/syslogd -a 208.70.104.202/32:514 -a 208.70.104.205/32:514 \ -a 208.70.104.1/32:514 -f /etc/syslogd.conf Steve
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