From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 16 4:11:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E0E37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcworks.net (mail.tcworks.net [216.61.218.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08D943EA9 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:11:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Received: from tcworks.net (stp.tcworks.net [216.61.218.6]) by mail.tcworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9GBB2h23055; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:11:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3DAD496E.7A8EBB78@tcworks.net> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:11:42 -0500 From: Chris Cook X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rus Foster Cc: Agbenya Adotey , Freebsd Subject: Re: logging References: <20021016113932.F42678-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020920) (mail.tcworks.net) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rus Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Agbenya Adotey wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > i work in an ISP. we are looking for a dedicated logging server for our > > customers. we want to build a freebsd box that would communicate with our > > dial-in routers and logging in all activities that go on. > > Does any body have a solution for this? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > See if your routers can sent messages to a SYSLOG host. If so config > syslogd.conf on the FreeBSD box to accept it > > Rus On this note I am having trouble with syslogd accepting outside logging since upgrading from 3-stable to 4-stable. I understand that the syslog in the 4-x branch is much more secure and that you have to specify for it to allow logging from hosts but even when I use: syslogd -a "ip address" it will not log from localhosts... it WILL log from hosts on a different subnet. any ideas? Thanks. -- Chris o----< ccook@tcworks.net >------------------------------------o |Chris Cook - Admin |TCWORKS.NET - http://www.tcworks.net | |The Computer Works ISP |FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org | o-------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message