syslog configuration

grace ingabire gracibire08 at yahoo.fr
Tue May 29 15:38:35 UTC 2007


Hello,

 

I have installed 
and configured  freeBSD 6.1  and have seen the configuration of the syslog in 
/usr/src/libexec/bootpd.

I would like to 
monitor my system using SYSLOG.

 

How can I go 
forward?

 

Thanks for your 
help.

 

Regards,

Ingabire 
Grace

NOC 
ENGINEER

250-08424148

250-05401198

ingabireg at terracom.rw

 

 




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#
# syslog configuration file for SunOS 4.X
# (modified to do local2 separately)
#
# This file is processed by m4 so be careful to quote (`') names
# that match m4 reserved words.  Also, within ifdef's, arguments
# containing commas must be quoted.
#
# Note: Have to exclude user from most lines so that user.alert
#       and user.emerg are not included, because old sendmails
#       will generate them for debugging information.  If you
#       have no 4.2BSD based systems doing network logging, you
#       can remove all the special cases for "user" logging.

#*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;user.none         /dev/console
kern.debug;user,mail.crit;auth.notice           /dev/console
daemon,syslog,lpr,news,uucp,cron.err            /dev/console

#*.err;kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;mail.crit;user.none /var/adm/messages
kern.debug;user,mail.crit;auth.notice           /var/adm/messages
daemon.notice;syslog,news,uucp,cron.err         /var/adm/messages

lpr.debug                                       /var/adm/lpd-errs

*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err;user.none           operator
*.alert;user.none                               root

*.emerg;user.none                               *

# for loghost machines, to have authentication messages (su, login, etc.)
# logged to a file, un-comment out the following line and adjust the file name
# as appropriate.
#
# if a non-loghost machine chooses to have such messages
# sent to the loghost machine, un-comment out the following line.
#
#auth.notice                    ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)

mail.debug                      ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)

# following line for compatibility with old sendmails.  they will send
# messages with no facility code, which will be turned into "user" messages
# by the local syslog daemon.  only the "loghost" machine needs the following
# line, to cause these old sendmail log messages to be logged in the
# mail syslog file.
#
ifdef(`LOGHOST',
user.alert                                      /var/log/syslog
)
#
# non-loghost machines will use the following lines to cause "user"
# log messages to be logged locally.
#
ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err                                        /dev/console
user.err                                        /var/adm/messages
user.alert                                      `root, operator'
user.emerg                                      *
)

# Local2: (bootpd, pppd)
local2.debug                            /dev/console
#local2.debug                           /var/log/local2


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