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localx facilities are often used by external devices (such as routers or
other linux boxes). I have also noticed that ht://dig reports its messages
to local5.info.

On my ascend router, there is a config field to say which localx to report
its messages on and what host name/ip to use. The router then just sends
them to the machine and its up to the receiving linux machine to recieve
them and store them in whatever file the localx entry points to.

I have not yet configured another linux box to log across the network so
cannot comment on how to set this up.

With ht://dig, you don't get any choice unless you edit the source code I
guess.

I think that they were designed for use by machines on the LAN to log to one
machine.

Hope this helps, I'm no syslog guru, and I'm not sure I've described it too
well. Maybe someone else can add to this.

Greyman
graham@gmcs.com.au

Adam Carter wrote in message <369C2CF2.6E707696@tip.csiro.au>...
>> local1.*                                        /var/log/router
>
>How do you setup the localx facilities? The man page mentions them but
>doesnt say what they are or how to use them. By the looks of your syslog
>entry there is some way to direct output to them - how would you setup
>ipfwadm or ipchains to point there.
>
>Adam