Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:11:23 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accepting syslog messages from a router Message-ID: <20011126091123.GA2864@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <005d01c1762a$730a3f80$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <004401c1761f$dc01be10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <005d01c1762a$730a3f80$0b01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:28:43PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > I have my router set to send messages to syslog on my FreeBSD system > > when connect attempts and the like are discarded, but nothing is being > > logged. When I look at traffic with tcpdump, there are lots of messages > > being sent to FreeBSD by the router, but I don't know where they are > > going. What do I have to do to make this work? > > > > Currently I have syslogd starting with "-a 10.0.0.0/24:*" as options > > (the router is at 10.0.0.30). The router is supposed to be sending > > messages as facility local1, so I have > > > > local1.* /var/log/router.log > > I am not sure if this will work for you or not but try this: > > +local1 > *.* /var/log/router.log No, that's not right. The +line takes a hostname, not a facility. This works for me (where netpilot is in the same domain as the loghost) : +netpilot *.* /var/log/netpilot It's in the fine manual. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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