remote logging with syslogd question

[Valeri Galtsev]

Dear Experts,

I decided to climb out of cave and set up remote log server. I followed 
handbook to configure syslogd for that. All is trivial (spare disabling 
-ss and replacing it with -s flag, as the first prevents opening network 
sockets).

But although all works like a charm, logs from remote client not only go 
to designated for them place, but also are going to respective log files 
of machine I use as log server. And the last makes a mess.

I wonder if someone can think of some trivial mistake I am making.

The only mistake I can think of is mixing two things, namely, I should 
have left syslog alone to do what it does, and use separate daemon (e.g. 
rsyslog) to run as remote log server. That mistake I happily admit, and 
am pursuing this better avenue. But I'm still curios what obvious 
mistake I might have made with syslogd.


Thanks for your insights!

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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