Logging router errors using syslog

[Martin Hasenbein]

On 26 Aug 2004 (15:30:52) [1093527052], Mark Ovens wrote:

Hi Mark,

> Thanks, yes, I was. I've changed it and restarted without ''-s'' but it 
> still doesn't appear to be logging anything - I configured the router to 
> log everything so the file should grow quite quickly.
> 
> Do you have any other idea(s)?

are you running some kind of firewall, like ipfilter or ipfw?
If so, did you open Port 514/UDP?
What happens, if you change this line in /etc/syslog.conf

    local2		/var/log/router/zyxel

to

	local2.*	/var/log/router/zyxel

and restart?


Ciao,
 -Martin.

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