[FIXED] Re: Syslog to remote host

John Oxley john at yoafrica.com
Thu Sep 22 02:53:45 PDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:31:39AM +0200, John Oxley wrote:
> OK, I have syslog'ging to a remote host done.  I am logging from
> morphine to marijuana.  On morphine I am saying, in /etc/syslog.conf
> mail.info                                       @marijuana.yoafrica.com
> 
> On marijuana, in /etc/rc.conf, I have put
> syslogd_flags="-a morphine:* -b marijuana"
> which according to me accepts from morphine and binds on marijuana.
> 
> All is working to here, everything that morphine syslogs to mail.info I
> can on marijuana get that out with mail.info.  The problem is it mixes
> it up with marijuana's mail.info, and when I add a whole bunch of other
> servers/switches/routers etc, its going to get VERY hairy.
> 
> How can I tell marijuana to log everything from morpine in
> /var/log/morpine.  I have tried
> +morphine
> mail.info         /var/log/morphine/maillog
> 

To reply to myself

At the start of /etc/syslog.conf on marijuana, I put
+morphine
mail.in.....
to log stuff for morphine.  Then:
+@
to log stuff for localhost, then I did the

Its all working now

-- 
John Oxley
Systems Administrator
Yo!Africa
E-Mail:  john at yoafrica.com
Tel:     +263 4 858404
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