syslogd remote logging

Josh Paetzel josh at tcbug.org
Mon Aug 21 20:59:25 UTC 2006


On Monday 21 August 2006 15:13, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Monday, August 21, 2006 14:40:37 -0500 Josh Paetzel
> <josh at tcbug.org>
>
> wrote:
> > I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to
> > another box.  In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have:
> >
> > local0.*  @xx.xx.xx.xx
> >
> > In syslog.conf on the remote machine I have:
> >
> > local0.* /some/file.log
> >
> > and I have added the syslogd_flags="-a xx.xx.xx.xx/xx" to rc.conf
> > on the remote machine and restarted syslogd.
>
> Did you also restart syslogd on the "local" box?
>

Yes.

> Does local0.* log anything locally?

No.

> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel


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