Jail's syslogd log to host's syslogd with unix socket

[Scott Lambert]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:27:50PM +0200, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
> Hello all,
> I want to log from a jail's syslogd to the host's syslogd using a unix
> socket. I've added in host's rc.conf (followed by syslogd restart):
> syslogd_flags="-ss -l /usr/jails/jail1/var/run/log"
> 
> Jail's rc.conf:
> syslogd_flags="-ss"
> 
> but nothing is logged in host's syslogd. I'd like to avoid UDP if 
> possible. Any ideas? 

man syslogd

"    -s      Operate in secure mode.  Do not log messages from remote
             machines.  If specified twice, no network socket will be opened
             at all, which also disables logging to remote machines."


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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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