minor syslog issue

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 04/30/15 09:02, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 04/30/15 14:28, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> 08:23:28.496828 IP RPiB+.59735 > kabini1.local.syslog: SYSLOG
>> syslog.error, length: 59
>> 08:23:28.497229 IP RPiB+.59735 > kabini1.local.syslog: SYSLOG
>> syslog.error, length: 59
> This is the only relevant bit out of your tcpdump output -- it usually
> helps if you filter out as much of the irrelevant stuff that you can[*].
>
> Anyhow, as you can see, your RPiB+ is logging *from* an arbitrary
> high-numbered port.  This time it happens to be using 59735 but that
> would probably change with each restart of syslogd.  Basically use the
> '-a 192.168.0.0/16:*' form in this case.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
> [*] ie. 'tcpdump port syslog' should work as the packets are being sent
> to the syslog port on your server.
>

I missed that (high port #, thought it might be a process #, *new* to 
tcpdump et al :-/ ) .... Could that be a mal/mis-configuration in the 
(rather beta) NetBSD ARM port ? I will try the updated syslogd flag & 
see how that goes. Thanks :-).

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