Logging router errors using syslog

[Martin Hasenbein]

On 26 Aug 2004 (13:55:35) [1093521335], Mark Ovens wrote:

Hi Mark,

> The router has been set up to log to the local2 facility and I've added 
> these lines to the end of /etc/syslog.conf:
> 
> !*
> +P650R-31
> local2		/var/log/router/zyxel

> Can anyuone suggest why this is not working?

how did you start syslogd? If it was started from /etc/rc.conf
without modifying the flags for syslogd, it won't work.
The default-flag for syslogd is

    syslogd_flags="-s"

>From the man-page:

     -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.


You have to disable this option and restart syslogd.


Ciao,
 -Martin.

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