From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 15:30:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 894B537B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 67583 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jun 2001 22:23:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15161.2940.652129.5196@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:23:56 -0500 To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How To Receive Syslog Messages From Another Device? In-Reply-To: <52304245@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Tomlinson types: > I have a 3Com ADSL router for my home network. I have found that it > (according to the docs) has the capability to send log messages to syslogd > on my FBSD box. I think I've set up the router correctly as it shows that > it's sent 126 messages but I have received none on my FBSD box. I assume > that there's some setup required with FBSD to allow it to receive the > messages. I've read the man page for syslog.conf and restarted syslogd > with -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:* where the xxx is the ip of my router. Yet I am > still not receiving messages. I have searched the 3Com site for a "how to" > but could find none. Does anybody have any ideas on what I might need to do > to get this working or what additional information I need to find? Hmm - it works fine for me, without the ":*" as I'm going from FBSD to FBSD. You do need to make sure that syslogd is started without "-s", as that causes it to ignore the -a. If syslog is sending packets from the syslog udp port, you might try dropping the ":*". If nothing else works, enable a firewall on the destination box set to log everything, and see what's getting sent to it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message