Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote:
> As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I
> enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to
> the syslog server.

Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the base system as nc(1):

   % nc -v -u 192.0.2.1 514

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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