Logging router errors using syslog

Mark Ovens marko at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 26 06:54:58 PDT 2004


Martin Hasenbein wrote:
> 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?

No, I'm not.

> 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?
> 

It is actually local2.*, it was a typo in my original post, sorry.

Regards,

Mark



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