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Date:      Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:21:16 -0600 (CST)
From:      Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kayasaman@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Syslog server not logging remote machines to file?
Message-ID:  <201111191521.pAJFLGAP065517@mail.r-bonomi.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EC78BA6.1050107@gmail.com>

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Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a really strange problem which seems to either be a bug with 
> the syslog server service or perhaps because I'm running jails on my 
> system.....
>
> I can log my router syslog information but somehow the syslog server 
> doesn't put the information into the designated file; which should be 
> /var/log/cisco857w.log???
>

The -usual- 'gotcha' for this situation is that you have to _create_ the 
file FIRST, and then tell syslogd to reload it's configuration.  (i.e. 
'kill -HUP' the PID for syslogd)





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