syslogd became silent between 11.2-PRERELEASE r334874 and r335282

[Gary Palmer]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 04:27:33PM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running service jails (VNET/bridge/epair) and a host at 11.2-PRERELEASE r335282, upgraded from r334874 today.
> 
> All syslog messages at each jail become forwarded to syslogd running at the host. This setup worked for years. Today not a single syslog message becomes forwarded to the host's syslogd.
> 
> Host's syslogd can be reached from inside every jail, e.g.:
> 
> 	jtest> nc -4vuw 1 10.x.y.z 514 
> 	Connection to 10.x.y.z 514 port [udp/syslog] succeeded!
> 
> logger doesn't throw any error. No message will be forwarded to the host's syslogd either:
> 
> 	jtest> logger -4 10.x.y.z HELLO
> 	jtest>
> 
> I cannot find any hint in src/UPDATING. 
> 
> What did I miss?
> Anyone else with a silenced syslogd?
> Anyone running my setup with a noisy syslogd?

Hi,

UDP is connectionless, so the client has no way of knowing if the
connection succeeded or not.  If you put in port 515 I suspect you'd
get the same result from your 'nc' attempt.

Is syslogd on the host running with '-s'?  If so, that'll stop it
from accepting any remote log events.

Regards,

Gary