FBSD5 syslogd not logging

[Sing Song]

Quoting "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels at westbend.net>:

> From: "Sing Song" <song at isot.com>
> > Quoting "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels at westbend.net>:
> > > From: "Sing Song" <song at isot.com>
> > > How are you stoping/starting syslogd? (reboot, /etc/rc.d/syslogd, ...)
> > >
> > > If your using /etc/rc.d/syslogd, make sure that /etc/rc.conf has
> > > syslogd_flags defined to the correct value.
> > >
> > > Is the FBSD 5.x system using the same IP address as the old FBSD 4.x
> > > system?
> > > If it's not you may need to either change the FBSD 5.x IP address to
> the
> > > old
> > > 4.x IP address or change the syslog address on the routers.
> > >
> > > Scot
> >
> > I stop and restart with 'killall -HUP syslogd'
> > I'm using '/usr/sbin/syslogd'
> > The IP address and the port is same.
> >
> 
> When you were giving syslogd the HUP signal, all it did was tell the
> currently running syslogd to re-read its configuration file
> (/etc/syslogd.conf), no flag changes were made to the running syslogd. And
> if you try to start a second syslogd daemon you should have gotten an
> error:
> 
>     # /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -a westbend.net
>     syslogd: child pid 4423 exited with return code 1
> 
> You should have given syslogd the TERM signal, and then started syslogd
> with
> the correct flags.
> 
> > What's funny is the logfiles to turn over as set in syslog.conf.
> >
> You should be using /etc/rc.d/syslogd to stop/start syslogd when changing
> the flags for syslogd.  You should be adding your changes to /etc/rc.conf,
> specifically add the following to rc.conf:
> 
>     syslogd_flags="-a *.isot.com"
> 
> NOTE: you may of may not
> Then stop and start syslogd with:
> 
>     /etc/rc.d/syslogd stop
>     /etc/rc.d/syslogd start
> 
> Scot

Actually I did stop with 'killall syslogd' to kill it, and then started 
manually '/usr/sbin/syslogd -a *.isot.com'.

Yesterday, I tried your recomendation to use rc.conf.  Looked at the log file, 
still nothing.  I added 'syslogd_flags="-a *.isot.com" to the rc.conf
and used '/etc/rc.d/syslogd start' after killing the old syslogd process.

I sure am getting frustrated as not getting any diag info from the routers.  
Maybe I need to put back my old radius box.



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