remote logging with syslogd

Brad Pitney pitney.brad at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 25 10:06:55 PDT 2008


Hi,

somehow I have miss-understood how to get syslogd to recieve logs from
another host, well my actual problem is syslog bitching likse this:
Mar 25 01:00:00 <kern.emerg>  syslogd: unknown priority name ""
Mar 25 05:00:00 <kern.emerg>  syslogd: unknown priority name ""
Mar 25 09:00:01 <kern.emerg>  syslogd: unknown priority name ""
Mar 25 13:00:00 <kern.emerg>  syslogd: unknown priority name ""
Mar 25 17:00:00 <kern.emerg>  syslogd: unknown priority name ""

syslog.conf:
*
#+oxdeadbeef
*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit       /var/log/console
*.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug              /var/log/messages
security.*                                     /var/log/security
auth.info;authpriv.info                        /var/log/auth.log
mail.info                                      /var/log/maillog
lpr.info                                       /var/log/lpderrs
ftp.info                                       /var/log/xferlog
 cron.*                                        /var/log/cron
*.=debug                                       /var/log/debug
!syslogd
*.*                                            /var/log/syslog
*

#+nub01
*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit       /var/log/nub01/console
*.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug              /var/log/nub01/messages
security.*                                     /var/log/nub01/security
auth.info;authpriv.info                        /var/log/nub01/auth
mail.info                                      /var/log/nub01/mail
cron.*                                         /var/log/nub01/cron
*.=debug                                       /var/log/nub01/debug
*

syslogd_flags="-vv -4 -A -a 192.0.2.0/24 -b oxdeadbeef"

-- 
Best regards,
 Brad


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