[freebsd-questions] syslog from Cisco -> FreeBSD not working

[Daniel Molina Wegener]

Howard Jones wrote:
> Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>> To further track this down I changed the above line in syslog.conf to
>> read
>>
>> +myrouter
>> local7.*                /var/log/cisco-syslog
>> +*
>>   
> What I did to get this working was (in syslog.conf):
> +printserver
> !*
> *.*                     /usr/log/printserver.log
> 
> AND in /etc/hosts:
> 10.1.1.8                printserver
> 
> so that the 'printserver' name is resolved. No doubt a reverse DNS entry
> would have done the job too. My syslogd command line is like yours.

   Also, the -a flag may be used with syslogd.

> 
> Hope that might help...
> 
> Howie
> 
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