syslogd remote logging

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Mon Aug 21 20:12:39 UTC 2006


--On Monday, August 21, 2006 14:40:37 -0500 Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> 
wrote:

> I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to another
> box.  In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have:
>
> local0.*  @xx.xx.xx.xx
>
> In syslog.conf on the remote machine I have:
>
> local0.* /some/file.log
>
> and I have added the syslogd_flags="-a xx.xx.xx.xx/xx" to rc.conf on
> the remote machine and restarted syslogd.
>
Did you also restart syslogd on the "local" box?

Does local0.* log anything locally?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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