bin/162135: remote syslog not logging

Larry Rosenman ler at lerctr.org
Sat Oct 29 04:08:53 UTC 2011


On 10/28/2011 11:01 PM, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:20:27 -0500
> Larry Rosenman<ler at lerctr.org>  mentioned:
>
>> See the options lines
>>
>> -a 192.168.200.0/24
>>
>> And the Cable modem is sending to 514.
>>
> Please, read the manpage description for the '-a' switch.
> The modem is sending to the port 514, it's true, but it's not
> using port 514 as a source.  And you didn't specify the source
> service in the '-a' command line argument parameter.
>
AHA! That's the issue.  I changed the -a to:
syslogd_flags="-n -a 192.168.200.0/24:*"

and we now get the messages logged.

THANK YOU.




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