From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 22:56: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCF137B875 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4A5tqD95539; Tue, 9 May 2000 23:55:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005100555.e4A5tqD95539@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: jacob@void.mapopolis.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd not working In-Reply-To: <39189266.8D4F2022@void.mapopolis.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 23:55:52 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09 May 2000 22:34:14 +0000 jacob@void.mapopolis.com wrote: +------------------ | anyone have any idea why the remote logging in syslogd on fbsd | 3.4-RELEASE might not work? i just setup a new nfsroot box, and i want | to do remote logging to another host, athena. in the /etc/syslog.conf i | have: | *.* @athena | i have another fbsd 3.4-STABLE box, and it does remote logging to athena | with no problem. when i tcpdump, i can see that the nfsroot box isn't | sending any syslog packets at all. it does log to /var/log/messages | though. thanks if you can help me :) | | -jacob kuenzel +------------------ Try killing syslogd and then running it with the -d option. That'll help you find where it is failing. I'd guess that there is a problem with the syntax of syslog.conf. Syslog requires the first character after the *.* be a tab. Go figure. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message